Latifa Laâbissi

Latifa Laâbissi is a dancer and choreographer. She made her debut on the international artistic scene in 2006 with Self Portrait Camouflage, the starting point of an artistic career exploring a variety of forms and characterized by close collaboration with Nadia Lauro. Her encounter with Antonia Baehr in 2018 gave rise to the performance Consul and Meshie. Latifa Laâbissi has also imagined La Nuit tombe quand elle veut, a vigil conceived with Marcelo Evelin. In 2022, she created Fugitive Archives, a commission for the CCN Ballet de Lorraine. Her collaboration with artist Manon de Boer has resulted in numerous works, including Ghost Party (1) & (2), and Persona. Her work has been the subject of several books, Grimaces du Réel in 2016 and Another Ghost Party in 2023. In 2023, she reunited with Antonia Baehr to create Cavaliers Impurs. Since 2020, she has been an associate artist at the Théâtre national de Bretagne in Rennes. Latifa Laâbissi is artistic director of the Extension Sauvage dance festival.

“This workshop is based on my 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. We’re going to play with all kinds of wood, multiplying the interpretations of the images produced, in order to invent underground links, heterogeneous registers, critical, satirical, witches and wizards. These will be joyful, permissive compositional games, blending the history of representations and the collective imagination.”