Bouchra Ouizguen

with Kabboura Aït Ben Hmad

Bouchra Ouizguen is a Moroccan dancer and choreographer. She lives and works in Marrakech where she has been involved in the development of a local choreographic scene since 1998. A self-taught Oriental dancer since the age of sixteen, her first pieces were nourished by her interests in the cinema, literature and music... She founded her own company in 2010 and has in particular worked with Mathilde Monnier, Bernardo Montet, Boris Charmatz, Julie Nioche and Abdellah Taïa. In 2010, she was awarded the choreographic revelation prize of the SACD and the prize of the critical press syndicate with Madame Plaza, in which she shared the stage with three female performers from the aitas tradition. In 2011, she created a solo, Voyage Cola, with Alain Buffard at the Avignon Festival; Ha! in 2012; Corbeaux, a performance for seventeen dancers in 2014, presented at the CN D as part of the Festival d’Automne; Ottof in 2015; then Jerada for the dancers of Carte Blanche, the national company of contemporary dance of Norway in 2017.

Accompanied by the dancer Kabboura Aït Ben Hmad, Bouchra Ouizguen is proposing an initiation into several Moroccan dances, but also a work on improvisation and rhythms, as well as silence. Some of the techniques which will be dealt with are not specific to the teaching of Moroccan dance, but they are at once a source of inspiration for the choreographer, while forging the singularity of the artists she has worked with for many years.