The aïta (ayta) is a unifying call, an oral transcription of the collective memory of an ancestral culture. The song expresses joys and fears, but is also a social photograph, a canvas that one follows so as not to forget anything.

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AYTA is a cry of protest and a call for resistance, a choreographic manifestation for six female performers, six bodies that are one, that try to resist the fold through verticality. They become an entity that advances, falls, lifts, folds, unfolds and folds back, but ends up finding a verticality that bears the trace of all these relentless struggles. Holding the vertical line is above all a necessity - of contestation, of opposition to the fold and, finally, of identity affirmation.

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A ritual exercise in elevation and the valuing of falling, the performance combines the free and rebellious spirit of Moroccan ayta music practice with the struggles of six artists who express themselves through dance, stoking the strength and freedom of the female body against any system that seeks to direct and control it.

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AYTA

Production Cie Ayoun

Co-production (confirmed) CCN- Ballet de Lorraine, Nancy / Pôle Sud, CDCN de Strasbourg / KLAP Maison pour la danse, Marseille / Le Gymnase, CDCN de Roubaix / Les Hivernales, CDCN d'Avignon / CCN2, Grenoble / 

Support (in progress) DRAC Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes, Ministry of culture (Paris, FR) / Caisse des dépôts Mécénat (FR) / AFAC (Arab Fund for Arts & Culture)