Danser Casa, Dancing Casablanca / Poorhouse International.

[Place of publication not identified] : Poorhouse International, [2018]

New York, N.Y. : Distributed by Infobase, 2022.

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This piece for eight dancers created in Casablanca in 2018 is the latest collaboration between Kader Attou and Mourad Merzouki, both coming from the circus school at Saint-Priest, a suburb of Lyon. The desire to take hip-hop beyond its street origins has been a driving force in their careers. In Danser Casa they rose to the challenge of a joint creation designed to showcase the talent of Moroccan dancers. Featuring captivating music and breathtaking choreography, it depicts the tension of Casablanca, wavering between latent violence always on the verge of exploding, and a fierce love that is never spoken. Sometimes the dancers size each other up, confronting one another in spirited duels, and sometimes their intertwining bodies exude the energy of atomic fusion.

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