Until 22nd December.
FAITH makes you feel that faith is more than just a personal belief. It is a source of trust, inspiration and connection. FAITH makes you feel that faith is more than just a personal belief. It is a source of trust, inspiration and connection.
Faith is, after Fortune and Islands of Empathy, the latest performance in The Human Odyssey series. In which Club Guy & Roni brings together different cultures and worldviews, lets clash and shows the deep human connection through an explosion of live music and spectacular choreographies.
Gnawa music, often associated with trance and lilac rituals, sends the performers into a sensitive discovery of faith. To a spiritual world from which we in the West may have drifted away a bit. What is still around us that we don’t see but can only feel?
The coming together of nine dancers and five musicians from the Netherlands and Morocco makes Faith a poignant intercultural performance in which a common ground is sought that is essential for a shared faith in the future.
One of the sources of inspiration for Faith is the Moroccan roots of Guy Weizman’s family. They are located in Casablanca, in the same neighbourhood where Khalid Benghrib grew up. They could have met as contemporaries, but life turned out differently. Now they come together in Faith.
The influence of contemporary dance choreographer Khalid Benghrib can be felt in his approach to dance as a total experience. He was trained by the great masters of dance: Colette Milner, Lahcen Zinoun, Karin Weiner, Christine Gérard. With that baggage, he founded Cie 2K_Far with Loren Palmer. They create choreographies based on the idea that dance is the way to talk about life.
His work has previously been shown in the Netherlands at the Spring performing arts festival, and at Dancing on the edge. The theatre newspaper described his earlier work based on gnawa music with lilac rituals as virtuoso, and an exciting tribute to his cultural roots.
With unparalleled precision and her characteristic tight choreographies, Roni Haver makes the connection within Faith from spiritual forms.
Together, Weizman, Haver, and Benghrib create a compelling mosaic of different physical, cultural, and spiritual approaches to faith. The last mosaic piece lies with the viewer.
Faith is part of our Human Odyssey, in which, from an intercultural perspective and in collaboration with an international dance company, we investigate different human feelings (love, fear, happiness, empathy).
