Brothers Ali and Hedi Thabet invite us on a political journey into the world of desires and the Holy, with the show "Rayahzone”,which will be presented in Piraeus 260 (THE), at 14, 15 and 16 June, in the context of the Athens Festival.

Ali and Hedi Thabet were born in Belgium, from a Tunisian father and a Belgian mother. From a young age they were involved in the circus and soon dance was added to their interests, the theater, writing and photography. Even when Hedy Tabet was hit with age 18 years of bone cancer and two years later he lost his leg, his love for the stage remained years later, created together with his brother the show we will enjoy.

“Rayahzone” is a journey (Rayah in Arabic), where we are invited to participate in order to disturb our arcane and tormenting inner anxieties in order to seek balance. On this trip, the bodies, the voice and percussion are the protagonists.

For the performance, the two brothers collaborated with the dancer Nicolas Vladyslav and the musicologist Sofyann Ben Youssef who, with five Sufi musicians, gave the music a leading role, thus making an indirect political statement, as Sufi music in Tunisia was banned at various times in history. In the show, the music does not complement the steps and movements of the dancers, but it is done – with her breath and voice as tools – vehicle that leads viewers to the Divine. As God created man by breathing into him his Spirit, man breathes out the voice of God and touches the Divine, through the song.

Finally the "Rayahzone", that we will watch at this year's Athens Festival is not just an absolutely perfect artistic performance but a journey of self-awareness. And the purpose of the Thabet brothers is to bring into confrontation and to transcend in space and time the three different dimensions of existence: the death, reason and madness, which are personified on stage by the three dancers and to connect their viewers with the little god that we all hide inside.

Choreography
Ali Thabet, Heidi Thabet

Music direction
Sofyann Ben Youssef
They interpret
Lionel About, Ali Thabet, Heidi Thabet
Live music
Mehdi Ayachi, Sofyann Ben Youssef, Mourad Brahim, Walid Sultan, Nidhal Yahyaoui

Info

Τοποθεσία Πειραιώς 260, Building H
Date 14 – 16 June, 21:00. Duration: 1:15’ without a break
Πληροφορίες www.greekfestival.gr
Τιμές εισιτηρίων Κανονικό 25€, Student ticket - disabled €15

Source : culturenow.gr