WISSAL
DANCE PERFORMANCE / VISUAL ARTS
WISSAL transcribes the art of dancing within the heart of two spaces: resonating with the beauty of the urban scenery, echoing the visual outline. The artist’s daily movements, as a medium of expression, explore the routines and mundanities of an often repressed daily life. Through the photographic eye of Behlole Mushtaq, juxtaposed with the artworks of street artist RamZ, we follow Alexia Traore as she explores and experiences the vibrant 18th district of Paris. From horizon lines, bridges, to railways, each aspect of the city finds its counterpart within the abstract beauty of urban calligraphy. A cumulation of minerals, metal, and memories who found their homestay within the streets and letters of Paris give birth to an improvised dance reflective of their beauty. The daily movements’ unfolding unravel the mechanism of dance. Images mirrored through the body outline an imaginary territory.
Performance, choreography, artistic direction: Alexia Traore
Urban Arabic calligraphy: RamZ
Dance is present in each of us. The only difference is that some people allow themselves to reveal it, others don’t. Dancer and choreographer Alexia Traore had the revelation of her art by listening to Pakistani singer Ustad Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan. Since 2002, she likes to rely on Egyptian, Algerian, Pakistani or Afghan musicians to bring out her cyclical and spinning dance. With her play Wissal (« spiritual encounter » in Arabic and first name for both men and women), Alexia Traore launches an assault on an intimate and deep art against the backdrop of projections of works by the urban artist RamZ.
Télérama
The encounter at the heart of artistic creation. When dance, arabic calligraphy and urban photography meet in the same show aptly named Wissal
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WISSAL transcribes the art of dancing within the heart of two spaces: resonating with the beauty of the urban scenery, echoing the visual outline. The artist’s daily movements, as a medium of expression, explore the routines and mundanities of an often repressed daily life. Through the photographic eye of Behlole Mushtaq, juxtaposed with the artworks of street artist RamZ, we follow Alexia Traore as she explores and experiences the vibrant 18th district of Paris. From horizon lines, bridges, to railways, each aspect of the city finds its counterpart within the abstract beauty of urban calligraphy. A cumulation of minerals, metal, and memories who found their homestay within the streets and letters of Paris give birth to an improvised dance reflective of their beauty. The daily movements’ unfolding unravel the mechanism of dance. Images mirrored through the body outline an imaginary territory.
Performance, choreography, artistic direction: Alexia Traore
Urban Arabic calligraphy: RamZ
Dance is present in each of us. The only difference is that some people allow themselves to reveal it, others don’t. Dancer and choreographer Alexia Traore had the revelation of her art by listening to Pakistani singer Ustad Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan. Since 2002, she likes to rely on Egyptian, Algerian, Pakistani or Afghan musicians to bring out her cyclical and spinning dance. With her play Wissal (« spiritual encounter » in Arabic and first name for both men and women), Alexia Traore launches an assault on an intimate and deep art against the backdrop of projections of works by the urban artist RamZ.
Télérama
The encounter at the heart of artistic creation. When dance, arabic calligraphy and urban photography meet in the same show aptly named Wissal
Read the article >>
Le courrier de l'Atlas
