FOR PROS DANCERS
Latifa Laâbissi's workshop is based on her practice of composition through collage and montage. Everything is a pretext for creating situations conducive to movement, through improvisation techniques designed to direct the imagination towards gestures that transform and twist dances, revealing alternative figures and narratives, infiltrating the signs of the times like a grimace of reality. Participants are invited to play, to make fire of any wood by multiplying the interpretations of the images produced, in order to invent underground links, heterogeneous registers, critical, satirical and sorcerous. These will be joyful, permissive compositional games, blending the history of representations and the collective imagination.

Latifa Laâbissi, dancer and choreographer, has been building an exploratory, collaborative artistic path since she burst onto the international scene in 2006 with Self Portrait Camouflage. Often working in tandem, notably with set designer Nadia Lauro, she has developed a rich repertoire combining stage and museum performances. Her approach is distinguished by intense collaborations, such as with Antonia Baehr for landmark works like Consul et Meshie (2018) and Cavaliers Impurs (2023), and with filmmaker Manon de Boer, resulting in hybrid projects like Party (1) & (2) and Persona. Associated with the Théâtre national de Bretagne since 2021, she also directs the Extension Sauvage festival in rural areas, affirming her commitment to contemporary dance that is accessible and integrated into diverse contexts.