Performing Arts

Le sacre de Lila

Ismaël Mouaraki

  • 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 danse

    Co-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

Florence Gould Foundation        Howard Gilman Foundation

and The Wescustogo Foundation

Support for dance programming in Crossing The Line from The Harkness Foundation for Dance

Harkness Foundation for Dance

Supported by FUSED, a program of Albertine Foundation, and by Dance Reflections by Arpels.

 L’Alliance New York’s programs are made possible by the New York State Council on the Arts with the Support of the Office of the Governor and the New York State Legislature.

L’Alliance New York’s programs are made possible by the New York State Council on the Arts with the Support of the Office of the Governor and the New York State Legislature

Photo Credit:
Lead Image ©Sylvie-Ann Paré

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