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Compagnie La Baraka (France)

“D'Eux Sens”

15. 11. 2010 – Monday
7 pm
Nowy Theatre Duża Scena, ul. Więckowskiego 15

About Christian Culture Festival

Christian Culture Festival was organized for the first time in 1997 on 10th Anniversary of the Logos Theatre. In a sense, it extends the idea of Christian Culture Weeks organized in Poland in 70s and 80s of the last century, which were to become counterpoise to lay media model promoted by the State. Lodz Christian Culture Days were organized in churches all around the city, so as to accommodate the artists, spectacles, exhibitions and projections.

One of such places was the John Paul lecture theatre in the vault of the Assumption of Holy Mother Church in Kościelna Street. This is where the Logos Theatre started, before it was moved to the church in Maria Skłodowska-Curie. It was this church that Archbishop Władysław Ziółek gave to the Lodz artists in 1993, and in which the Centre of Creative Communities’ of Lodz Archdiocese was appointed. It is here that the ‘logistic’ centre of the Festival is located, and where some of the Festival events take place.

Traditionally, the Festival takes place in November, on the first Sunday after All Soul’s Day. It usually lasts for two weeks, during which various event take place – spectacle premiers, other theatres come to Lodz, there are exhibitions of invited artists, performances of choirs and musicians, very often not to be seen anywhere else in Poland at any other time. The Festival programme is the result of the whole year’s work of rev. Waldemar Sondka, the Festival Director, who – using his contacts – invites artists who are interesting, out of the ordinary, noteworthy and creating art perhaps not always religious, but always searching and at the highest level. Care for the level of the Festival offers is a permanent rule, the Logos environment has always wished to provide the Lodz citizens with the possibility of contact with art deprived of parochialism, open to the man and as perfect formally as possible.

The Festival is not an activity that brings profit. Any entrance cards are issued as invitations that are free of charge, and the team of the Logos Theatre and all the people engaged in the Festival organization, act as volunteers. This does not mean that Christian Culture Festival costs nothing. On the contrary, to organize such a cultural event at appropriate level is always connected with costs. Rev. Waldemar Sondka deals with organizing means to secure the Festival events all year round. He manages to gain sponsors (without whom the Festival would not exist) and subsidies from institutions that deal with funding culture (without which the Festival could not develop). All that in order to realize the basic idea of the event that derived from the Lodz Christian Culture Days – to enable anyone who wishes and needs that, to live the Mystery through art. This idea assumes a free of charge participation in all the artistic events, which has been the case since the very beginning of the Festival until today, the only condition is that on the day of the Festival opening, one must queue as long as it takes to get invitations. The only limit to the number of invitations is the capacity of rooms in which the events are organized every day throughout the two weeks of the Festival.


 

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“D'Eux Sens”
Duo

Piece dedicated to my father-in-law, Salim Ait Benalla (April 1949 — March 2008)

"While immersing myself in the poetry of Omar Khayyâm — a great Persian poet, philosopher and mathematician of the 11th century, I've been immediately seduced and inspired by the deepness and the humility of his discourse about the meaning of life and by his way of lauding the "joyousness of God".

Khayyâm, with his Rubaiyat (quatrain in Persian), described himself as an infidel but a worshipper , and was critical towards the Muslim religious people. This is what interrogated me with questions, being myself a Muslim. In this duo, I'm inspired by some of his quatrains, which raises questions on the passage of time, the fleeting pleasures of life and the immicence of death. Through spiral movements, between sky and earth, in a fluid dance thwarted by breathing, it seemed evident to me to talk about love in couple, burning desire, love of the one another another until self-loss and loss of the other.

The dancers transcend this duo, exhilarated by the musical fusion of Sufi tradition and occidental electronic music. An original soundtrack by Eric Aldea and Ivan Chiossone mingles with iranian santûr and with the a cappella version of Omar Khayyâm's quatrains by the Afghan singer Massoud Raonaq.

Finally, the dancer Nawal Lagraa Ait Benalla and myself are conversing and exploring "from the inside", to let our own truth reverberate in each of us."

Abou LAGRAA

 

Choreographer: Abou Lagraa
Dancers: Nawal Lagraa Ait Benalla, Abou Lagraa
Music: Eric Aldea & Ivan Chiossone
Singer: Massoud Raonaq
Additionnal music: Robert Ashley, Madjid Kiani
Artistic consulting & Repetition coach: Patricia Porasse, Sandrine Maisonneuve
Costumes: Michelle Amet
Light creation and manager: Gérard Garchey
Technical direction: Antoine de Gantho
Stage manager: Patrick Magny
Sound manager: Béranger Mank
Running time : 50 min

Abou Lagraa

Born in Annonay on December 22, 1970, Abou Lagraa began to dance at the age of 16 in his hometown, then attended Lyon's Conservatoire National Supérieur Musique et Danse, where he worked with a number of guest choreographers.

From 1993 to 1996, he danced with Ruy Horta — S.O.A.P. Dance Theater Frankfurt — and became his assistant for a project at the Gulbenkian in Lisbon. In 1997, he worked with Denis Plassard, Lionel Hoche and Robert Poole and was awarded the 2nd prize in contemporary dance at the City of Paris International Competition 1998.

In 2009, the International Movimentos Dance Prize awarded Abou Lagraa the Best Male Dancer Prize. He founded his company La Baraka in 1997. His firts piece was performed at Lyon's Biennale de la Danse, for which he also created 2 parade perfomances (1998, 2000). Since 1997, he created 12 pieces, touring in France and in Europe, but also in USA, Algeria, Tunisia and Indonesia.

In 2001, the CCN — Ballet de Lorraine commissioned to Abou Lagraa a piece for 15 dancers Fly, Fly, recreated for the ABC Dance Company in St Pölten (Austria).

In 2003, he created a piece for the 2nd year students of Angers National Center for Contemporary Dance, then in 2007 for the students of Frankfurt Hochschule and of the Mediterranean Center for Contemporary Dance in Tunis.

In 2006, the Paris Opera Ballet commissioned to Abou Lagraa a piece Le Souffle du Temps, for 21 dancers including 3 principal dancers (Marie-Agnès Gillot, Wilfried Romoli, Manuel Legris).

From 2004 to 2007, Abou Lagraa and his company were awarded a 4 year residency at Bonlieu Scène Nationale in Annecy, where he was an associated artist.

From 2009 to 2011, La Baraka is in production residency in Sceaux, at Les Gémeaux Scène Nationale. Since 2008, Abou Lagraa and his company have been working, in collaboration with the Algerian Cultural Department, on a «Mediterranean Cultural Bridge »: a French — Algerian cooperation for the development of artistic exchanges for dance. As part of it, he was commissioned the choreography of the closing ceremony of the 2nd Alger Panafrican Festival 2009.

In 2010, a programm composed of training, creation and cultural exchanges between both countries is created. The first year succeed in Nya, a piece for 10 dancers of The Contemporary Unit of the Ballet National Algérien.

Nawal Lagraa Ait Benalla

Dancer

Born in Safi, Marocco, in 1978, of a Berber father and a French mother, Nawal left her country at the age of 8 years old. From 1989 to 1999, she studied ballet with Sylva Ricard in Millau and practiced repertory (Swan Lake, La Bayadère, The Corsair...)

In 1999, she discovered jazz dance and began her career with the "Amstrong Jazz Ballet" in choreographies by Georges Momboye, Wayne Barbaste, Matt Matox... Later, she performed for elecronic music scenes, in lyrical or theatrical performances with Blanca Li, Jacques Weber, Yannis Kokhos at the Opéra Bastille, Théâtre du Châtelet and in different audiovisual events and video clips.

In 2005, she passed her diploma at the Centre National de la Danse, to be a dancing master.

In 2006, she joined Company La Baraka with Matri(k)is and assists Abou Lagraa for a commission of the Memphis Ballet in 2007.

Thus, she has become an artistic and teaching assistant of the choreographer in particular for the project "Cultural Mediterranean Bridge". La Baraka develops with Algeria, and performs with Abou Lagraa the duet "D'Eux Sens" created at Lyon's Biennale de la Danse 2008.