NI NI YA MOMO

“Ni Ni Ya Mo Mo is the lullaby I grew up with. It's also the first thing I think of in connection with my Arab heritage. Here, I'm not narrating Morocco, I'm not depicting its culture, but I'm finally grasping the traces it has left me. 

Based on this intimate, poetic memory shared with his father, Guilhem Chatir immerses us in the projections and fantasies born in the depths of this voice. Together with his partners Karima El Amrani and Bilal El Had, he explores the rituals of falling asleep that accompany the slide into slumber. Halfway between infinite gentleness and vertiginous intranquillity, between tangible reality and evanescent imagination, the performers deploy a hypnotic physical material marked by chaos and instability. In a circular set-up, they re-enact together this state of seesaw, of in-between worlds: dances inspired by a complex wealth of origins and by images that reveal then disappear, evoke, then consume themselves ad infinitum.

Chorégraphie et conception : Guilhem Chatir | Interprétation : Karima El Amrani, Bilal El Had, Guilhem Chatir | Création sonore : Milan Van Doren | Création lumières : Suzanna Bauer | Scénographie : Elfie Poiré | Collaboration artistique : Gaëlle Vatrican | Dramaturgie : Hanna El Fakir | Création costumes : Manon Gondek | Production, administration : Steven Cayrasso, Gaëlle Vatrican | Production Déléguée : Les Halles de Schaerbeek | Coproduction : Les Halles de Schaerbeek (Bruxelles), Charleroi danse (Bruxelles), Les Brigittines - Centre contemporain du Mouvement de la Ville de Bruxelles, Théâtre de Liège, Concertgebouw Brugge (Bruges), Les Subs (Lyon), La Coop asbl et Shelter Prod, avec le soutien de taxshelter.be, ING et du tax-shelter du gouvernement fédéral belge | Accueil en résidence : La Briqueterie CDCN (Vitry-sur-Seine) dans le cadre des résidences croisées “Passerelles”, Le Centquatre - Paris, Les Subs (Lyon), Les Halles de Schaerbeek (Bruxelles), Les Brigittines (Bruxelles), Charleroi danse (Bruxelles) | Avec le soutien de la Fédération Wallonie Bruxelles – Service de la danse et de Wallonie Bruxelles International