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

Choreographer Sofiane Abou Lagraa, who grew up in the Ardèche and made his mark in French modern dance, was encouraged by his wife Nawal to do something in Algeria, the country of his parents. This eventually led to the assignment to revive Algeria's National Ballet. The Abou Lagraa couple decided not to work with the existing, classically trained cast, but to add a contemporary section to the Ballet and recruit the dancers for it from...

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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

Choreographer Sofiane Abou Lagraa, who grew up in the Ardèche and made his mark in French modern dance, was encouraged by his wife Nawal to do something in Algeria, the country of his parents. This eventually led to the assignment to revive Algeria's National Ballet. The Abou Lagraa couple decided not to work with the existing, classically trained cast, but to add a contemporary section to the Ballet and recruit the dancers for it from...

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