A dance of vulnerability and virtuosity, a collective reckoning, a solo.
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In his latest piece Every-Body-Knows-What-Tomorrow-Brings-And-We-All-Know-What-Happened-Yesterday, Mohamed Toukabri turns his sharp choreographic eye to the architecture of dance itself. Known for his ability to navigate between worlds—be it street and stage, hip hop and postmodernism, personal and political— Toukabri’s piece pulses with the urgency of decolonising the imagination, carving out a space where dance traditions do not compete but converse, where forms long dismissed as ‘low’ hold their own against the canonised. This is not fusion but friction. It is coexistence. A rewriting of the rules in real-time.
The title is both a provocation and a reminder. What responsibility do we carry in what we pass on, in what we erase or uphold? The work doesn’t offer any easy answers but insists that we, as witnesses, are implicated. Having honed his craft within institutions and on the streets, Toukabri now claims a choreographic voice that is unmistakably his own: rooted yet unbound, deeply personal yet speaking to a collective reckoning. This is more than a solo. It’s an invitation to step into a dance where all bodies, all histories, belong.
about
Mohamed Toukabri was born in Tunis and began dancing at the age of 12, starting with breakdance before joining the Sybel Ballet Theatre. At the age of 16, Mohamed trained in Paris at the International Academy of Dance, before returning to Tunis to study at the Mediterranean Centre for Contemporary Dance. In 2008, he started studying at P.A.R.T.S., simultaneously joining Needcompany and performing with Anne Teresa De Keersmaeker and Sidi Larbi Cherkaoui, who will go on to become a frequent collaborator, presenting works at the Philharmonie de Paris and the Bayerische Staatsoper.
His first self-devised work The Upside Down Man premiered in 2018 and was selected for the #NewYoung category of Het Theater Festival. Both his first work and a subsequent duet with his mother, The Power (of) The Fragile, are currently touring throughout Europe. Mohamed’s latest solo production explores the ties between dance, memory, history, virtuosity, migration and politics.
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