Per°Form Open Academy of Arts and Activations 2024 Presentation — The Body and Resistance by Selma & Sofiane Ouissi

Synopsis

Drawing from their extensive body of work, Selma and Sofiane discuss in their presentation the stages and strategies of the body/bodies as a powerful vessel for creative, political, and social action. Each choreographic invention is an archive of a political event. Each artistic gesture is a protest to narratives and voices made invisible by politics. Each performance, an artistic intervention and an affirmation that creation, is a true act of resistance.

About Selma & Sofiane Ouissi

Selma and Sofiane conceived the 2019 edition of “Dream City”, as a civic and artistic parliament: a shared and protected space that offers a critical platform for rare forms of emancipation, and exchange between a diversity of African voices, who are key to developing new narratives and networks for the future of the continent. They both attended the National Conservatory of Music and Dance in Tunis before moving to Paris. The duo has performed with major Tunisian and international theatre directors and choreographers, at venues and performing-arts platforms around the world.