And the human being finds a place in its environment, however changing and uncertain it may be.

Based in Marrakech, Bouchra Ouizguen cultivates a personal, unique and inspired form of choreographic expression, far from the codes of Western contemporary dance. For over a decade, she has been collaborating with women with a charismatic presence and powerful, bewitching singing voice, who perform at traditional festivals. As folk artists from southern Morocco, embodying a part of the country's cultural heritage, they carry within them a form of joyful freedom that contrasts with society's gender, cultural and racial prejudices, and perhaps not only in Morocco. By inviting them onto the contemporary dance scene, which she herself discovered through her many collaborations (with Mathilde Monnier and Boris Charmatz, for example), Bouchra Ouizguen is not only bringing together past and present, tradition and modernity. Through the sharing of their respective experiences as women and artists, their knowledge of their bodies and of movement, and their keen sense of performance and vision, the choreographer forms an alliance with these women in order to put difference to the test - but without violence, through gaiety, complicity and a generous attention to human dignity.

After several performances based on their own experiences, Bouchra Ouizguen is now opening her troupe to the contemporary landscape. The group turns to their surroundings and draws inspiration from people they meet on the street or in everyday life, as well as from the birds, lights and sounds around them. In contact with the group, and like it, the world reveals itself to be both the bearer of ancestral and vulnerable memories, and this encounter opens up a suspended time that no longer fears either its past or its future.