L’Onde

2020

“Nacera Belaza tackles head-on the question of ritual that has permeated all of her previous works. […] Essential notions such as unity, being and its relationship to infinite space and time, the letting go at the origin of the surpassing of oneself, are put back into play, in the light of the universal pulsation founding these ancient practices.”

Smaranda Olcèse-Trifan

Note of intent

“I feel that my entire career is like a straight line. Each of my pieces is a milestone on a straight path, without deviation. When you deviate, you know it, you feel it. It seems to me that the artist must oppose this with all his strength. The line that connects two points is necessarily taut, without respite. One and the same intention that one repeats tirelessly, and it is on oneself that one is actually working.”

Nacera Belaza

Artistic team

Choreography, sound and light design Nacera Belaza
Interpretation Nacera Belaza, Aurélie Berland, Paulin Banc, Magdalena Hylak, Mohammed Ech Charquaouy
Stage management Christophe Renaud

Creation

Festival de Marseille 2020 / Kunstenfestivaldesarts 2021

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L’Onde, teaser 2021
© Video Corinne Dardé

Production

Nacera Belaza Company

Coproduction

Kunstenfestivaldesarts / Charleroi danse, centre chorégraphique de Wallonie-Bruxelles
Festival de Marseille
deSingel, Campus International des Arts
MC93 Bobigny
LUMA Foundation
ICI – Centre chorégraphique national Montpellier-Occitanie, directed by Christian Rizzo, as part of the research and creation residencies programme
L’Arsenal Cité musicale Metz
Atelier de Paris / CDCN

Support

SACD as part of the duo programme
Institut français – Ville de Paris
SPEDIDAM

Provision of a set Points-communs, nouvelle scène nationale de Cergy/Val d’Oise.

The company has benefited from the support and residency of the LUMA Arles foundation, as well as the support of the Ile-de-France region, as part of the creation aid scheme.