Afrovibes: El Botinière - Selim Ben Safia (Al Badil)
El Botinière by Tunisian choreographer Selim Ben Safia is a metaphor for the toxic world of the 'patriarchal hypocritical Arab-Islamic society' in which people cannot be who they want to be.
Afrovibes: El Botinière - Selim Ben Safia (Al Badil)
Electro-oriental music
El Botinière – the name of a mythical cabaret in the centre of Tunis – is a show set to popular electro-oriental music that highlights the hidden side of Tunisian nightlife where joy, sadness, love, hate, desires and life are intertwined. A place steeped in lust and where those who dare not show themselves in broad daylight wander. Five dancers each tell their own story in which the dark and the sublime intersect and evoke feelings of freedom, but also suffering.
El Botinière has previously been shown at Castélorienne Montval-sur-Loire 2022, Center Choréographique Nantes 2023 and Danse sur les Routes Quebec 2024.
Afrovibes: El Botinière - Selim Ben Safia (Al Badil)
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