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From December 16 until December 20, 2024, Anne Teresa De Keersmaeker and Rabih Mroué will present their first collaboration, A little bit of the moon, as part of the Festival d'Automne à Paris.

Choreographer Anne Teresa De Keersmaeker and director Rabih Mroué met for the first time in 2004 during the first edition of the Meeting Points Festival in Cairo. A second encounter followed three years later in Beirut, also during Meeting Points, when De Keersmaeker danced both Fase, Four Movements to the Music of Steve Reich and Once as part of the festival.

Invited by the Festival d'Automne, De Keersmaeker and Mroué shared, over the course of ten months, their thoughts, concerns, doubts, and questions regarding politics, art and life. After numerous exchanges by video conference, the two artists now come together on the site of a former industrial complex, the new home of the Fiminco Foundation.

A little bit of the moon is an attempt to establish an alternative space between two persons. They each belong to a different medium, and explore situations in which two threads can form a knot. The work lies on the demarcation line between dance and theatre, where neither medium has the will or even the desire to impose itself on the other. This collaboration revolves around the struggle to find a common territory for sharing, partnership and dialogue in a world that has become full of hatred, revenge and a desperate fight for power. It is an encounter about the meaning of friendship in a world that becomes terrifying to the point of death. Between their ephemeral past(s) and the desperate future, the work will be in the present time, wrapped with short stories, music and poetry and a little bit of dance and theatre.

The performance will be presented from Monday, December 16 until Friday, December 20, 2024 at 8PM at the Fiminco Foundation in Paris.

For more information, please visit the website of Festival d'Automne à Paris.