Talk(s) at the Crossroad(s) - Mohamed Toukabri invites

In his life and dancing, Mohamed Toukabri navigates between worlds – from street to stage, from hip hop to postmodern dance, from the personal to the political. In his solo Every-Body-Knows-What-Tomorrow-Brings-And-We-All-Know-What-Happened-Yesterday, he unravels the systems that make us believe that some dance is better or more important than others and questions which bodies are allowed to appropriate which movements. He speaks with a choreographic voice that is unmistakably his own: rooted but unbound, deeply personal but speaking to a collective consciousness. It is more than a solo – it is an invitation to look beyond the familiar, in a dance where all bodies belong and dance traditions engage in dialogue with each other.

In his artistic research, Mohamed Toukabri engages in collaborations with other dancers and dance makers who work at the crossroads of different dance traditions. On Sunday May 10, he invites some of them to join him and the audience in a conversation about the aesthetic, political and personal questions that concern them. Urban dance styles and other dance genres are slowly gaining a foothold in arts centres such as STUK, but this does not happen naturally. A gathering in the STUKcafé about the possibilities and impossibilities of fusions and frictions, of coexistence and separate worlds that can’t always read each other’s codes. How can we follow the path of tradition, but also keep the way open for the future and the communities that come after us – dancers and audiences alike? How do these dancers and creators rewrite the implicit rules of different dance cultures – those of the street, the dance lines, the cypher or the black box – transforming them, in real time, into a language of their own, connected to diverse communities?

Come and listen and exchange at STUKcafé in Sunday vibes. We will provide interesting conversations and some tasty treats!