Filipe Lourenço invites the participants to explore Ahidous dance, the traditional dance of the Berber tribes, combining movement and musicality to capture its artistic essence. Participants will learn the specific gestures and rhythms of Ahidous dance, and then integrate this knowledge into Filipe Lourenço's contemporary choreographic research. This dialogue between tradition and modernity opens up new creative horizons, combining rhythm, dance and song to invent a new choreographic register.
Filipe Lourenço
Filipe Lourenço is a dancer and a choreographer (Portuguese/French). He began his artistic career with the Chant et Danses du Maghreb association in Bourges (now Al Qantara) in 1984. He practised Maghreb folk dances for around fifteen years before teaching in the same association. Alongside dance, he began playing Arabo-Andalusian music in 1988, the 'Oud (Arab lute), with the El Albaycin orchestra for 12 years. In 1997, he joined the Centre National de Danse Contemporaine d'Angers, CNDC (France), and started working with choreographer Olivier Bodin. Since then, he has worked with many artists including Patrick le Doaré, Catherine Diverrès, Georges Appaix, Joëlle Bouvier, Nasser Martin-Gousset, Michèle Noiret, Olivier Dubois, Christian Rizzo and Boris Charmatz. In 2014, on his initiative, the Plan-K association was founded. With his new company, Filipe Lourenço created his first show Homo Furens in 2016, Pulse(s) in 2018, Gouâl in 2021 and Cheb in 2023.