Radouan Mriziga A7LA5
Magec / the Desert
In a world driven by human ambition and technology, the mountain, desert, and sea remain untamed spaces beyond control. Magec / the Desert explores vast, arid landscapes, uncovering their wisdom and rethinking humanity’s relationship with nature. From the Sahara to the Thar and the steppes of Central Asia, deserts emerge as spaces of reflection, where human smallness is revealed, and myth, literature, and cultural knowledge take shape.
Drawing on crafts, music, and embodied practices of desert cultures, it explores harmony and interconnectedness, showing how the desert teaches abundance through its quiet vastness. Mriziga’s collaborative practice interweaves rhythm, text, movement, and sound into a polyphony of perspectives.
Like the layered textures of the desert, the performance resists singularity, offering a sensory and intellectual complexity. Magec / the Desert invites audiences to pause and engage with the intelligence of nature, opening space for reflection and returning to the elemental.
• Choreographer Radouan Mriziga (1985) has carved out a remarkable and distinctive path within the Brussels and Flemish dance scene since his arrival in Belgium. After dance training in Morocco, Tunisia and France, he graduated from P.A.R.T.S. in 2012. From 2014, he developed his own work with the support of Moussem Nomadic Arts Centre, including a trilogy (’55’, ’3600’, ’7’) exploring the relationship between choreography and architecture. In 2017 he became house artist at Kaaitheater. He then started a new trilogy around his origins as Imazighen, with the solos ‘Ayur’ (2019), ‘Tafukt’ (2020) and ‘Akal’ (2021). In 2020 he collaborated with Anne Teresa De Keersmaeker. In 2023 he began his most recent trilogy on choreographic landscapes: ‘Atlas / the Mountain’ (2023), ‘Magec / the Desert’ (2025) and the upcoming ‘Atlantis / the Sea’. His youth production ‘8.2’ was selected for Het Theaterfestival 2019. His work has toured internationally at venues including Festival d’Avignon, Kunstenfestivaldesarts and Tanz im August.
Concept, chorégraphie & scénographie Radouan Mriziga | créé avec et interprété par Robin Haghi, Bilal El Had, Hichem Chebli, Feteh Khiari, Sofiane El Boukhari, Nathan Félix, Paulos Argyropoulos | musique & conception sonore Deena Abdelwahed | vidéo Senda Jebali | costumes Salah Barka | recherche Maïa Tellit Hawad | texte Mahmoudan Hawad | directeur technique Zouheir Atbane | production A7LA5 | coproduction Sharjah Art Foundation, Kunstenfestivaldesarts, Festival d’Automne, de Singel, Festival d’Avignon, Pact Zollverein, Culturescapes, Tanz im August/HAU Hebbel am Ufer
