Between identities and territories: re broadcast of Rachid Ouramdane Interview in Dance Tech Program

[Marlon Barrios Solano]

I attended last night to the performance of "Far" a very nuanced solo conceived and performed by French Algerian choreographer Rachid Ouramdane presented within the BIPOD Festival: Beirut International Platform of Dance. I felt again that this work traverses the dangerous waters of politically charged broken narratives of our postmodern identities and it makes us see the contradictions embedded in the belief of personal and geopolitical utopias. In this festival encounter I can feel in the region artists the urgency for storytelling, the necessity of explaining, the awkwardness and eccentricity of modern or contemporary dance and entrapment of the transnational distribution systems of DANCE in relation with the local conditions.

There are no answers nor scape, I think.
It is humbling.
The only thing that I have been left with is capacity to understand the multilayered narratives and the tension between the local conditions and the untamed interconnected world.
So, I decided to repost this interview with Rachid done when he premiered FAR in NYC at Dance Theater Workshop. He takes us across his landscape of memories and permeable multiple identities and quests for meaning or just survival.

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[Linda Lewett]

Rachid's performance and interview is even more powerful on second viewing. it is so important that you are there marlon to witness and bring this material here for us to experience.