Mud: Yaser Khaseb & Aleef: Taoufiq Izeddiou
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Event: Mud: Yaser Khaseb & Aleef: Taoufiq Izeddiou
Date: 10-Dec-2011
Time: 20:30 - 22:00
Location: Rasa | Utrecht
Double-Bill night in Rasa.
After talk with the artists moderated by Sahand Sahebdivani
Mud
Mud, winner of the 2010 Audience Award in the Fajr Festival in Teheran, is based on the timeless story of a man who makes a living creation which then goes on to rebel against its maker. Stunning in its dark visuality and skilful mime, Mud displays the satirical symbolism and convincing performance that is Khaseb’s trademark. Mud has been performed in Teheran and Seattle, and will soon go on tour in Europe.Yaser Khaseb comes from a theatrical family. He studied acting and mime at Tonkabon University and received his Master’s degree in acting from Teheran University. His work combines dance, mime, theatre and puppetry. His pieces have won prizes at the Boshehr Mime Festival and the Student International Puppetry Festival, and have been performed at the renowned Teheran Fadjr Festival. Since participating in the 2007 and 2009 Dancing on the Edge Festivals, he has been in great demand as an artist, performing in theaters and festivals all over the world. In 2009, his collaboration with Duda Paiva, ‘Cloud’ (co-produced by Dancing on the Edge), was highly acclaimed by press and audiences alike.
Performed by: Yaser Khaseb, Ali Asghari Ghajari / Siamak Sharifan.
Aleef
Aleef, Arabic, means I am turning and at the same time evokesaleph, the first letter of the alphabet. Taoufiq Izzediou thereby marks the moment of initiation and the uncertainty with which the ever new search for the self and the writing of one’s own history is always associated. “I am angry. My energy is crazy, clever, slow, controlled, tired, exhausted, restrained . . . Am I Moroccan? An African? From the Mediterranean area? An Arab? Or a citizen of the world?”, he describes the question of his own identity as an open wound. And he sketches out a solo that also reflects the struggle that is linked to a life in contemporary dance in Morocco; with the decision for an art form that in its inherent search for an “other” body confronts us with one’s own and official national and family history, between tradition and modernity. Together with the traditional Gwana musician Maâlem Adil Amimi and the sound designer Guy Raynaud, an atmospherically dense journey through memory develops in the attempt to be able to say ,I’ again.
Aleef has been performed in Beirut, Bucharest, Madrid, Rio de Janeiro, Brussels, Aix en Provence and elsewhere.
Taoufiq Izeddiou is regarded as one of the leading contemporary choreographers in Morocco and his works have been performed widely in Europe and the Arab world. He founded Compagnie Anania in 2003, together with two Moroccan dancers, Bouchra Ouizgen and Saïd Aït El Moumen. Taoufiq is also director of the ‘On Marche’ International choreographic festival in Marrakech and has initiated a wide variety of projects in the country, including professional training, choreographic workshops and dance education programs for children.
Performed by: Taoufiq Izeddiou, Adil Amimi.
