Here I Bequeath What Is Not Mine
S’inspirant d’archives familiales et d’anecdotes personnelles, le chorégraphe bruxellois Habib Ben Tanfous fait de son corps l’épicentre d’une recherche intimiste, drôle et sensible sur les ambivalences de l'héritage. Que faire de ce qu’on nous lègue et qui ne nous appartient pas toujours ? Que transmettre à son tour ? Entouré des musiques et des voix qui peuplent son passé et son présent, Habib Ben Tanfous compose un solo saisissant sur les tiraillements, les deuils et les joies qui accompagnent l’élaboration d’une vie à soi.
With the solo Here I Bequeath What Is Not Mine, Brussels choreographer Habib Ben Tanfous traces what constitutes him. Even before his birth, Habib, great-grandson of Habib, inherited this name and its history. How do these narratives take root in his life? Where do they reside? Are they truly his own? Drawing inspiration from family archives, childhood memories, and recent personal events, Habib Ben Tanfous makes his body the epicenter of his research and the medium of his language. Visceral, delicate, singular, his vocabulary translates the intimate ambivalences of an omnipresent heritage, around which he composes an incisive and moving dance. To tremble, to whisper, to straighten up, to look ahead, to turn back sometimes, to shed the burden of heritage while drawing strength from its richness, to embrace its joys while accepting its melancholy. At the heart of these multiple variations of movement lies the attempt to respond to the echoes of the past by inhabiting the present.
By engaging with the music and voices that populate the space, Habib Ben Tanfous reminds us that we are not alone, but surrounded by the presences of yesterday, today, and tomorrow. Through them, he asks us: of these things bequeathed to us, what, in turn, should we pass on? From son to father and from father to daughter. And since life follows the cycle we know, isn’t it time to catch our breath, to sing, and to whirl?
Here I Bequeath What Is Not Mine is both a testamentary act and a declaration of love. From this antagonism emerges an implacable force: that of affirming the power, both plural and unique, of being oneself and in the world.
Text: Hanna El Fakir
Crédits
Conception, chorégraphie, interprétation : Habib Ben Tanfous
Création sonore : Theo Rota
Création costumes : Amandine Laval
Scénographie, création lumière : Aurore Leduc
Collaboratrice artistique : Elisa Firouzfar
Dramaturgie : Adeline Rosenstein
Collaborateurs à la dramaturgie : Arnaud Timmermans, Thomas Schaupp
Regard chorégraphique : Mercedes Dassy
Production, diffusion, communication : AMA brussels – France Morin, Clara Schmitt, Emi Parot, Babacar Ba, Noémie Van Cauwelaert
Un spectacle de la compagnie FINEK soutenu par l’asbl Ravie
Production déléguée : AMA Brussels, Atelier 210
Coproduction : Atelier 210, Charleroi danse, Les SUBS – lieu vivant d’expériences artistiques Lyon, Théâtre Varia, Ravie asbl
Avec le soutien de : la Fédération Wallonie-Bruxelles – Direction de la danse, de Wallonie-Bruxelles International, de Wallonie-Bruxelles Théâtre/danse, de taxshelter.be, d’ING et du tax-shelter du gouvernement fédéral belge
Résidences : Charleroi danse, Kunstencentrum BUDA, le BAMP, Iles/Artist Project, Les SUBS – lieu vivant d’expériences artistiques Lyon, La Bellone - Maison du Spectacle, CSC Centro per la Scena Contemporanea & Bora Bora dans le cadre de Dance & Dramaturgy European Network (D&D EU)
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