Afrovibes: El Botinière

Selim Ben Safia (Al Badil) (TN)

Wed 2 Oct and Thu 3 Oct

In an austere setting, a toxic world and a hidden nightlife full of joy and sorrow reveal themselves.

Past event

Wed 2 Oct

and

Thu 3 Oct

Past event

Wed 2 Oct

19:00

NL Première

Frascati, Amsterdam

Frascati 1

Past event
Thu 3 Oct

19:00

Frascati, Amsterdam

Frascati 1

Past event

El Botinière by Tunisian choreographer Selim Ben Safia is a metaphor for the toxic world of "patriarchal hypocritical Arab-Islamic society" in which people cannot be who they want to be.

El Botinière - the name of a mythical cabaret in the centre of Tunis - is a performance set to popular electro-oriental music which highlights the hidden side of Tunisian nightlife where joy, sorrow, love, hate, desires and life are intertwined. A place steeped in lust and where those who dare not show themselves in broad daylight wander. Five dancers each tell their own story in which the sombre and the sublime intersect, arousing feelings of freedom but also suffering.

Previously at Castélorienne Montval-sur-Loire 2022, Centre Choréographique Nantes 2023, Danse sur les Routes Quebec 2024.

Duration: 60 min.
Dutch premiere: October 2

Part of

Afrovibes Festival 2024

Credits

choreography Selim Ben Safia & Marwene Errouine, dance Marwen Errouine, Fetah Khiari, Houda Riahi, Mariem Bouajaja & Mohamed Cheniti comedienne Anissa Daoud music Hazem Berrabah light Jérôme Bertin