YOUNESS ABOULAKOUL - TODAY IS A BEAUTIFUL DAY
concept, choreography
Youness Aboulakoul
performer
Youness Aboulakoul
outside eye
Youness Atbane
lighting design
Omar Boukdeir
media design
Jeronimo Roe
sound design
Youness Aboulakoul
dramaturgical advice
Gabrielle Cram
sound engineer
Zouheir Atbane
production
Cie. Ayoun
première
14 November 2019,
Dancing on the Edge festival, Utrecht (NL)
duration
approx. 45 minutes
language
no problem
availability
seasons 19/20, 20/21
touring party
3 - 4 pax
transport 2 additional suitcases (in case of air travel: 1 special baggage + 1 regular baggage to check in)
links & downloads
> performance sheet (EN)
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> press review (FR)
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TODAY IS A BEAUTIFUL DAY
Physical or psychological, real or symbolic, direct or 'televised', violence makes our bodies vibrate, from the pores of the skin to the depths of the soul. Sometimes bloodcurdling, other times igniting. What's the intensity needed to urge mankind to act and change the world? This is one of the questions asked in Today is a Beautiful Day, a performance on the edge of dance and performative installation art, where violence is rather evoked, not just bluntly shown.
After having put his talents as a performer at the service of choreographers such as Olivier Dubois, Christian Rizzo, Radhouane El Meddeb and Alexandre Roccoli, Youness premiered this first solo in November 2019 at the Dancing on the Edge festival in The Netherlands (Utrecht, Rotterdam and Amsterdam).
NOTE D'INTENTION
The body is a space of resonance. Surroundings resonate in bodies, and every body resonates with what it's surrounded by.
«Today is a Beautiful Day» searches to resonate in your bodies, long after having left the stage. In his solo Youness Aboulakoul investigates the impact of violence in our bodies and explores its movement in a never ending but ever beginning chain of actions of constant transformations. How violence stores itself in our bodies and keeps spiraling between its objects and vibrating in the very subject it subjects ? Memories are like invisible imprints, often keeping alive in embodied gestures and movement patterns. What is the matter that violence is made of and how can we grasp its ephemeral nature, precisely since it constantly changes its forms and ways of appearance?
In a dark room Aboulakoul experiments the possible contours of violence, articulating its shapes and forms. “Today is a Beautiful Day” is an eternal beginning, the movement of violence into our consciousness, a powerful and yet curiously fragile dispositive, a stage for its very own unraveling.
Production Cie Ayoun
Co-production ICI-Centre chorégraphique national de Montpellier - Occitanie (FR), Les Subsistances, Lyon (FR), Institut Français du Maroc (MA), Ballet du Nord - Centre chorégraphique national de Roubaix (FR), Viadanse - Centre chorégraphique national de Bourgogne Franche-Comté à Belfort (FR), and Dancing on the Edge, Amsterdam (NL)
Residencies ICI-Centre chorégraphique national de Montpellier - Occitanie (FR), Viadanse - Centre chorégraphique national de Bourgogne Franche-Comté à Belfort (FR), Charleroi Danse (BE) and L’Uzine Casablanca (MA)
With the support of Association Beaumarchais - SACD (Paris, FR)
CALENDAR
22 October 2020 / Rencontres chorégraphiques internationales, Théâtre municipal Berthelot, Montreuil (FR)
21 October 2020 / Rencontres chorégraphiques internationales, Théâtre municipal Berthelot, Montreuil (FR)
30 September 2020 / actOral, festival international des arts & des écritures contemporaines, Théâtre du Gymnase, Marseille (FR)
29 September 2020 / actOral, festival international des arts & des écritures contemporaines, Théâtre du Gymnase, Marseille (FR)
25 January 2020 / Le Moi de la danse, Les Subsistances, Lyon (FR)
24 January 2020 / Le Moi de la danse, Les Subsistances, Lyon (FR)
23 January 2020 / Le Moi de la danse, Les Subsistances, Lyon (FR)
23 November 2019 / Dancing on the Edge Festival, Frascati, Amsterdam (NL)
16 November 2019 / Dancing on the Edge Festival, Theater Rotterdam, Rotterdam (NL)
14 November 2019 / Dancing on the Edge Festival, Het Huis, Utrecht (NL)
