Amazigh: Filipe Lourenço’s dance at the Théâtre du Rond-Point

With Amazigh, choreographer Filipe Lourenço sets a collective memory in motion: that of ahidous, a dance performed in the mountains of Morocco’s Middle and High Atlas. For this large-scale production, he brings together twelve dancers and percussionist Amine Nouri, who performs onstage.

Ahidous traditionally brings together dance, song and percussion. The dancers gather, respond to one another and share a rhythm. Filipe Lourenço draws on this language to create a contemporary choreographic vocabulary, attentive to each person’s place in the group and to how culture is passed on through gesture.

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The performers move through lines and groupings that continually re-form. Repetition and pulse drive this collective work, while live percussion becomes part of the dialogue between the bodies. The piece explores what we inherit from a tradition and how to transform it on today’s stage.

This encounter between contemporary dance and Amazigh heritage forms the thread running through the show. It offers an entry point for audiences curious about the links between live music, memory and collective movement.

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