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CN D - Centre national de la danse 2017

Choreographer(s) : Alzghair, Mithkal (Syrian Arab Republic)

Present in collection(s): Centre national de la danse , CN D - Spectacles et performances

Video producer : Centre national de la danse

Integral video available at CND de Pantin

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CN D - Centre national de la danse 2017

Choreographer(s) : Alzghair, Mithkal (Syrian Arab Republic)

Present in collection(s): Centre national de la danse , CN D - Spectacles et performances

Video producer : Centre national de la danse

Integral video available at CND de Pantin

en fr

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There are so many ways of reporting violence, so many articles, films, books, manifestos, petitions, banners and processions, so many images. Our vigilance is dulled and our reasonable indignation is concealed behind a façade of compassion. The world’s silence in the face of what has been happening in Syria since 2011 is a symptom of this traumatic blindness. How can you depict a community that is living through an absurd reality? After Déplacement, premiered in 2016, in which he explored the idea of exile by drawing on the cultural heritage of his country, this new piece by Mithkal Alzghair, a Syrian choreographer and dancer, looks at the links between reality and art from different times and different places. This new project is both a performance and an installation, these two forms making it possible to present the different bodies generated by a state of war: bodies on the ground, floating, suspended or immobile. Transaction is about ‘after the catastrophe’. ‘How can we produce images today, show the world what is happening, the political violence, the reality of the murders that are being committed in the face of global silence, the inertia of our international system? How can we show the unshowable, make visible what blindness prevents us from touching? I have tried to open up a choreographic space where I can achieve equilibrium and the convergence of two parallel lines, reality and art. Creating images that murmur the better to hear the cries of terror that are hidden within them.'

Updating: June 2017

Alzghair, Mithkal

Mithkal Alzghair is choreographer, dancer, syrian, born in 1981. He studied between the East (Higher Institute of Dramatic Art in Damascus, Syria) and the West (master of choreographic studies Exerce at the national choreographic center of Montpellier). He has performed for several choreographers (Marie Brolin-Tani, Xavier Le Roy et Christophe Wavelet) and he 

has recently collaborated with the Italian company In-Occula, for the European project CRACK. He creates Displacement in march 2016, a solo and a trio in which he questions his legacy in a context of exile. The show won the rst price of the international competition Danse élargie, organized by the Théâtre de la Ville in Paris and the Museum of Dance / CCN Rennes et de Bretagne. In the autumn of 2016 Mithkal Alzghair founded the HEK- MA company. 

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Choreography : Mithkal Alzghair

Interpretation : Noma Omran, K Goldstein, Marion Blondeau, Mithkal Alzghair

Original music : Création vocale Noma Omran

Settings : Khaled Dawwa

Duration : 57 minutes

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