Le sacre de Lila
Ismaël Mouaraki
Schedule
Friday, November 8, 2024
Saturday, November 9, 2024
Inspired by the Lila ceremonies, traditional mystical and musical celebrations of his native Morocco, Ismaël Mouaraki explores trance with a group of male dancers in his newest creation. Through them, the French-Moroccan-Canadian retraces his own journey before the eyes of the public. Meaning “night” in Arabic, a “Lila” is a set of nocturnal healing rituals that blends singing, dancing, and music, traditionally found in some North African countries. Mouaraki transposes the rites and codes of these dance rituals onto the stage, while infusing his signature contemporary street dance style to reveal the sensitivity and sensuality of the male body. Tinted with the tastes and colors of Morocco, the artists transform the performance into a celebration and exaltation of bodies that unfolds with an undeniable energy.
Duration: 60 minutes
Co-Presented with New York Live Arts.
Venue
Event Pricing
Children under seventeen (17) years of age must be accompanied by a parent or legal guardian at all times and may not attend events unattended.
Ismaël Mouaraki
Since 2003, Ismaël Mouaraki has continued his work within the company Destins Croisés, which he founded. His choreographic creation reflects his obsessions as the thread of a lifetime’s work: embodying the infinite facets of humanity. The artist creates in a thousand ways, but with the same obsession. Whether in Loops (2008), the duo Slam en/Corps (2009) in collaboration with slam poet Queen KA, his solo RefleXction (2010), or his group pieces Lien(s) (2016), oZe (2019) and Phenomena (2019), everything revolves around the notions of polarities, control, domination, and the perception of the individual within the group. In his latest creation, Le sacre de Lila (2022), he brings together 10 dancers from Quebec and Morocco on stage to celebrate the sacred rituals of his native country. An artist and entrepreneur of body and spirit, Ismaël Mouaraki surrounds himself with artistic collaborators whose talents and expertise inspire his passion and vision. It is through human contacts that he shapes and develops a unique signature, rooted in the openness of genres and the discovery of others. For him, dance is a vector of social phenomena and human condition: when Ismaël initiates a research process, it is to discover the imprints left by our cultural and social environment, which inevitably sculpt our bodies.
Le sacre de Lila Credits
Production: Destins Croisés
Choreographer: Ismaël Mouaraki
Rehearsal Directors and Artistic Advisors: Annie Gagnon, Geneviève Boulet
Performers: Rodrigo Alvarenga-Bonilla, Léo Coupal-Lafleur, Gabriel Jobin, Etienne Léonard Benoit, Daniel Stefek, Alexandre Wilhelm
Additional Performers during creation process: Ayoub Hattab, Faissal El Assia, Soufiane Faouzi Mrani, Yassine Khyar
Music: Antoine Berthiaume. Featuring participation from the Association Salamate Gnawa Montréal and Okto Echo.
Lighting and Technical Direction: Rodolphe St-Arneault
Costumes and Scenography: Marilène Bastien
Co-production: Agora de la danseCo-Presented with New York Live Arts
New York Live Arts is an internationally recognized destination for innovative performance and humanities programming, offering audiences access to art and ideas by creatives notable for their conceptual rigor, formal experimentation and active engagement with the sociopolitical and cultural currents of our times. Led by world-renowned artist Bill T. Jones, New York Live Arts supports artists at all stages of their careers through our residencies, commissions, and artist services. It also serves as home base for the Bill T. Jones/Arnie Zane Company, which has been creating groundbreaking work for over forty years.
Production at L’Alliance New York
Programming Manager: Clementine Guinchat
Support for Crossing The Line
and The Wescustogo Foundation
Support for dance programming in Crossing The Line from The Harkness Foundation for Dance
Supported by FUSED, a program of Albertine Foundation, and by Dance Reflections by Arpels.
Photo Credit:
Lead Image ©Sylvie-Ann Paré
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