Qunfudh Bouchra Ouizguen at the Autumn Festival

9 boulevard lénine

Bouchra Ouizguen works at the threshold: where the body opens to what appears. Movement, threaded with traces and reminiscences, blends with chants, music and silences. Alone on stage, the choreographer seeks a space of freedom where erasure would become a form of presence. Qunfudh—“hedgehog” in Arabic—evokes a body that knows how to retract as much as to unfold. Like him, being alone in front of the audience means placing oneself between exposure and protection. In her works, Bouchra Ouizguen has often entrusted the solo figure to those who stand in the shadows. Today …