ENSEMBLE PIECE / EXHUME BURIED CRIES / BEAUTY LOVE / REANIMATE THE DEAD
For her latest creation, Khadija El Kharraz Alami looks for the world of her ancestors. She immerses herself in dance, song, music, customs, scarcity, sharing, rituals and traditions to awaken parts of herself that she would otherwise not have met, parts that would have ended up lost.
The show contains a mythical tale about a people called el Hayawan (creatures) el Ghoul (evil spirit) Shjema T'wila (tall trees) that follows its own rhythms, not fully identifying with one idea or culture, but also not resisting the known. They exist and move in a parallel world with us. They are not sure of things in our world, they are sure of things in their dimensions and are happy to share them with our world. They move simultaneously in past, present and future through imagination.
• Khadija El Kharraz Alami graduated from the Utrecht School of Arts in 2014. In her work, she shows humans searching for identity, and failing to do so. She has previously appeared at Kaaitheater with the impressive solo Now I am Medea (2020), which won her the KBC Youth Theatre Award at Theatre by the Sea, the performative research Re-claiming Space (2020), and her performance The Waves (2022).
concept & direction Khadija El Kharraz Alami | performance Lois Lumonga Brochez, Khadija Massaoudi & Khadija El Kharraz Alami | dramaturgy Kopano Maroga & Esther Severi | light design Luc Schaltin | music Michelle Samba | sound Peter Zwart | assistent director Nouha Rannoun | production manager Lena Meijer | promo image Hussein Shikha | camera research Souha Abou Taha | camera creation Julie de Clercq | film edit Noria Chaal | production Kunstenwerkplaats, stichting K.E.K.A. Co-production De Singel, NTGent, Productiehuis Theater Rotterdam, De Brakke grond, Riksteatern | with the support of the Flemish Community, The Flemisch Community Commission, Fonds Podiumkunsten & Fonds21
