'They want to put everything on the line. In Western Europe, that desire is stupidly lacking': Algerian B-Boyz vulnerable and unyielding in Nya

by Fransien van der Putt
24 May 201130 March 2022
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Choreograaf Sofiane Abou Lagraa, die opgroeide in de Ardèche en zijn sporen verdiende in de Franse moderne dans, werd door zijn vrouw Nawal aangezet om iets in Algerije te gaan doen, het land van zijn ouders. Dit leidde uiteindelijk tot de opdracht om het Nationale Ballet van Algerije nieuw leven in te blazen. Het koppel Abou Lagraa besloot niet met de bestaande, klassiek opgeleide cast te werken, maar een hedendaagse afdeling aan het Ballet toe te voegen en de dansers daarvoor te recruteren uit...

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Fransien van der Putt

Fransien van der Putt is a dramaturge and critic. She works with Lana Coporda, Vera Sofia Mota, Roberto de Jonge, João Dinis Pinho & Julia Barrios de la Mora and Branka Zgonjanin, among others. She writes about dance and theatre for Cultural Press Agency, Theatererkrant and Dansmagazine. Between 1989 and 2001, she mixed text as sound at Radio 100. Between 2011 and 2015, she developed a minor for the BA Dance, Artez, Arnhem - on artistic processes and own research in dance. Within her work, she pays special attention to the significance of archives, notation, discourse and theatre history in relation to dance in the Netherlands. Together with Vera Sofia Mota, she researches the work of video, installation and peformance artist Nan Hoover on behalf of www.li-ma.nl.View Author posts

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