In queer communities, blood does not necessarily mean protection. Chosen families with friends are often created. Building on this chosen family notion, Saphir Belkheir reinvents his lineage. Dialoguing with personalities from the past, real or fictional, he tries to better understand the roots of his own dance to better prepare the journey ahead.
Choreography, performance, set design: Saphir Belkheir
Music : Nour Aït Sadi
Film : Samir Ramdani and Saphir Belkheir
Production: Maison de la Culture de Seine-Saint-Denis
Coproduction: Common Stories, a Creative Europe programme with the Maison de la Culture de Seine-Saint-Denis, Théâtre National Wallonie-Bruxelles, Alkantara Lisbonne, africologne, Riksteatern Stockholm I Fonds Transfabrik - Franco-German Fund for Performing Arts
With support from: ICI-CCN de Montpellier I La Briqueterie CDCN du Val-de-Marne I Points Éphémère I Les Ateliers Médicis I RheinEnergieStiftung Kultur
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Residency
- TRANSAT programme, Because U Art association, Marseille, with the support of Atelier Médicis, 10 July-25 August 2023
- Point Ephémère, Paris, 11-15 March 2024
- CDCN Val-de-Marne La Briqueterie, with the support of ICI-CCN de Montpellier / exerce, 18-29 March 2024
- Africologne Festival, with the support of RheinEnergieStiftung Kultur, 10-17 October 2024
- AfroTopia, Cologne, 11-16 October 2024
- MC93, Bobigny, 7-12 November 2024
- Théâtre Joliette, Marseille, with support of the Festival Parallèle, 27 January-1 February 2025
- Residency and filming of a short film screened as part of the show, MC93, Bobigny, 3-6 February 2025
- MC93, Bobigny, 22 April-9 May 2025
Touring dates
- MC93, Bobigny, 10-15 May 2025 (off on 12)
- Africologne Festival, Cologne, 12-13 June 2025
- Alkantara festival, Lisbon, November 2025
Samir Ramdani
A graduate of the Beaux-Arts in Toulouse, Samir Ramdani also studied at the Bau-haus-Universität Weimar, Germany.
In the videos he has been making for the past ten years, Samir Ramdani tackles political issues in an offbeat way. Borrowing jubilantly from the aesthetics of horror and science-fiction films, he plays with the boundaries between fiction and documentary to create "popular objects", combining mastery of narrative keys, pictorial images and inventive soundtracks. His films question social inequalities, logics of economic domination and cultural conditioning, notions of identity, and the many individual and collective ways in which people invent and create spaces of freedom.
Nour Aït Sadi
A self-taught queer composer, she masters several disciplines, including sound design, live music and beatmaking. Thanks to her varied inspirations, ranging from techno to rap and ambient, she is able to accompany stages with compositions featuring dense, deep and captivating rhythms.
