A specialist in Maghrebi traditional dance and Arab-Andalusian music, Franco-Portuguese dancer, choreographer and musician Filipe Lourenço builds here on his explorations of Ahidous, the mixed traditional dance form, after previously investigating the collective warrior dance Alaoui in Gouâl. This Middle Atlas version of a collective Berber dance allows him to create variations around a repertoire used both for mourning the dead and for celebration. Through the singing, rhythm and music performed by his five interpreters, the commitment of the bodies leads us gently into trance.
A specialist in Maghrebi traditional dance and Arab-Andalusian music, Franco-Portuguese dancer, choreographer and musician Filipe Lourenço builds here on his explorations of Ahidous, the mixed traditional dance form, after previously investigating the collective warrior dance Alaoui in Gouâl. This Middle Atlas version of a collective Berber dance allows him to create variations around a repertoire used both for mourning the dead and for celebration. Through the singing, rhythm and music performed by his five interpreters, the commitment of the bodies leads us gently into trance.
BIOGRAPHY
> FILIPE LOURENÇO (Portugal-France)
Born in Bourges in 1976, and after studying Arab-Andalusian music and the traditional dances of the Maghreb, Franco-Portuguese dancer, choreographer and musician Filipe Lourenço began his artistic practice in 1984 with the Chant et Danses du Maghreb association in Bourges (now Al Qantara), regularly performing in concert with the El Albaycin orchestra. In 1997, he entered the Centre national de danse contemporaine in Angers, then went on to collaborate with Olivier Bodin and with artists and choreographers such as Christian Rizzo, Boris Charmatz, Patrick Le Doaré, Catherine Diverrès, Georges Appaix, Joëlle Bouvier, Michèle Noiret, Nasser Martin-Gousset and Olivier Dubois. In 2014, he founded his own company, Plan-K, creating the quintet Homo Furens (2016), the solo Pulse(s) (2018), Gouâl (2021), Cheb (2020) and Amazigh (2025), the latter being the first part of a future group work for thirteen dancers and one musician-composer.
DISTRIBUTION
Filipe Lourenço (choreography), Déborah Lary (assistant), Kerem Gelebek, Youness Aboulakoul, Mithkal Alzghair, Ema Bertaud, Alice Lada, (performers), François Michaudel (general management, tour preparation), Jean-Philippe Borgogno (sons’ management), Filipe Lourenço and Amine Nouri (music), Khalid Benghrib (costumes), Compagnie Filipe Lourenço / Plan K (production), Christophe Pederrière, Lara Thozet (administration and production/distribution).
PRODUCTION
Co-productions
Bourges Cultural Center (National Stage), Essonne National Stage Agora-Desnos, Orléans National Stage, Corbeil-Essonnes Grand Paris Sud Theater, L’Arc – Le Creusot National Stage, Limoges Opera, Espaces Pluriels Pau, Théâtre Louis Aragon, Tremblay-en-France National Stage for Art and Creation – Dance, Espace 1789, Grenoble National Choreographic Center, Roubaix National Choreographic Center, Ballet du Rhin Nancy National Choreographic Center.
Support
Presented in July 2025 at La Belle Scène Saint-Denis, a program of the Théâtre Louis Aragon, a nationally recognized venue for Art and Creation – Dance in Tremblay-en-France, with support from the City of Tremblay-en-France, the Seine-Saint-Denis Department, the Ministry of Culture (DRAC Île-de-France), the CND – National Dance Center, and ADAMI.
With the support of the CND – National Dance Center, ADAMI, and ONDA.
The company Cie Filipe Lourenço / Plan-k receives funding from the Ministry of Culture and Communication – DRAC Centre-Val de Loire Region for the development of its projects.
It received project support from the Centre-Val de Loire Regional Council.
Studio support and loans: CND – National Dance Center, 104, Théâtre Louis Aragon.
