US Premiere

Fascinated by an artisan’s gestures in which movement is organized to serve production, Mriziga uses his body like a tool to play with perspective and audience expectations. What emerges is an ancient symbol bearing new meaning, questioning our fundamental attachment to symbols and their ability to transgress meanings over time. In the artist’s own words: “The starting point of 55 is: how can I be as functional as possible on stage? As a dancer you constantly ask yourself questions: Is it sufficient? Is this what I want to convey? Is this the right form? What exactly am I doing? What am I making? What do I express? I set out in search of functionality and the form functionality may adopt. It is an almost architectural approach. I question myself as a performer and as a creator.”

This event is part of Live Ideas Festival 2016: MENA Future  

About Radouan Mrziga:

Radouan Mrziga graduated in 2012 from P.A.R.T.S, Anne Teresa De Keersmaeker’s famous Brussels dance school. He worked on the presentation Half Elf Zomeravond which Bart Meuleman realised at the Toneelhuis. He is one of the performers of the production Re: Zeitung, a project of the P.A.R.T.S. Foundation and De Munt in which a new generation of professional dancers rework the repertoire of De Keersmaeker. He also danced in Primitieve, the production of choreographer Claire Croizé, and rehearse young French choreographer Simon Tanguy’s latest creation People in a Field, which premiered in the Veem Theater in Amsterdam.

In 2014 Mriziga was working on his first choreography, 55, as an artist in residence at the Moussem. 55 was went premiere in December 2014.