Laaroussa
SACEM Prize Valorization of symphonic music.
Video-choreographic show by Selma and Sofiane Ouissi
Co-production MP13, Kunstenfestivaldesarts, Scène Nationale d'Annecy
Violin: Caridad Martos, Viola: Victor Portoles.
Zibeline
« A precise and fascinating gestural score, sometimes accompanied - too infrequently? - by the subtle musical creation of Caroline Boë, and the close-up sequences - sometimes too long - of Cécil Thullier and Nicolas Sburlati. [...] beautiful images abound, unexpected, making craftsmanship in its gesture, without ever a word being uttered that tells the story, without the manufactured objects ever being shown, leaving the door of the dream wide open ... »
Agnes Freschel – Zibeline - August 2013
RTBF
« When you look at potters molding, according to ancestral practices, vases to which their skill gives shape, you have the impression that you are witnessing the birth of a work of art. At the same time, this repetitive work can seem tedious, even mind-numbing for (those) those who practice it.
Two Tunisian dancers / choreographers, Selma and Sofiane Ouissi, have decided to take on this manual work by transforming it into a dance object, a tribute to the creative body, in its accuracy and precision. This gives a spectacle of extreme delicacy, based on a video, sometimes too long, by Cécil Thuillier (the only downside of the whole) and a musical composition in voluptuous volutes by Caroline Boë.
In a first phase, the video features beautiful faces of elderly women who fondly caress their faces, as if they were molding a vase, with affection as well. Then we can see Selma and Sofiane, back towards the audience, shirtless, which allows you to admire a surprising "dorsal muscular choreography": what the back "produces" ripples when the hands work the pottery.
Another video sequence transposes us with the potters into Tunisian nature and shows us the two performers, this time from the front, still seated, reconstructing the space with the hands: there is no "naturalist" imitation of the potters but a stylized construction based on the repetition of gestures and the rhythmic division of space. The tribute thus paid to the beauty of the daily gesture and its transformation into art is both subtle and moving. As if intelligence, gentle sensuality and bodily ritual come together for our pleasure.»
Christian Jade - RTBF.be - May 06, 2013