Day breaks over a raft stranded in the middle of the desert. Around it: wind, dust, and the memory of a vanished ocean. Men and women gather, searching in their gestures for traces of an ancient memory. They dance to survive, to exist, to remember. Bodies spin, strike, rise again, passing on the pulse of a world that falters yet still breathes. The circle comes alive, the ground trembles, the dust rises: it is the call of a collective breath, that fragile moment where trance meets celebration.
 
 

Artistic Note

Inspired by Gnawa culture and the legend of Sidi Moussa, spirit of water and guardian of passages, Amin evokes a journey — between collapse and rebirth. Music, chants, and rhythms resonate like wordless prayers: they awaken bodies, revive memories, and connect the living. Around the musician, the dancers shape a landscape of movement and impact. Their raw and sensitive energy brings forth a primal beauty. Trance here is not surrender, but resistance. Amin is a poetic and political fable that dialogues with the sacred, ritual, and spirituality of Gnawa culture — an act of raw humanity, a passage between worlds, an attempt at reconciliation between the intimate and the spiritual, between the physical and the invisible. It invites the audience to cross that moment when the body remembers, when music heals without words, when humanity becomes sensitive again. You will hear waves, a heartbeat, a breath, and perhaps, at the edge of silence, the echo of your soul…

 

Souhail Marchiche & Mehdi Meghari, authors & choreographers

 

AMIN / TOUR 2026–2027

03/07/2026 – Cratère Surface / Alès
04/07/2026 – Cratère Surface / Alès
07/07/2026 – 7 Collines Festival / Saint-Étienne
08/07/2026 – 7 Collines Festival / Saint-Étienne
19/07/2026 – Paris l’Été / Morsang
–/07/2026 – Chalon dans la Rue / Chalon-sur-Saône
–/07/2026 – Chalon dans la Rue / Chalon-sur-Saône
12/09/2026 – Le Mans
13/09/2026 – Le Mans
25/09/2026 – Vitry-sur-Seine
26/09/2026 – Wolubilis / Belgium
27/09/2026 – Wolubilis / Belgium

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CAST

Artistic Direction & Choreography
Souhail Marchiche and Mehdi Meghari

Performers
Davide Salvadori, Léa Bouchery, Ali El-Kihal, Assiya Eddahbi, Thibault Miglietti, Nabil Sansi

Music Creation
Patrick De Oliveira / Nabil Sansi

Set Design
Souhail Marchiche and Mehdi Meghari

PARTNERS

La Comédie / CDN of Saint-Étienne – PIPD “Arts in Public Space”: Lieux Publics (CNAREP, Marseille), Le Cratère (SN, Alès), L’Atelline (SCIN, Juvignac), FAI-AR (Marseille) – Les Abattoirs CNAREP Chalon-sur-Saône – Le Flow & Lille3000 – Quelques Part CNAREP d’Annonay – Théâtre du Parc (Andrézieux-Bouthéon) – Théâtre de Brétigny – Institut Français du Maroc – L’Uzine (Casablanca) – Espace Maoka (Bir Jdid) – Hiba Lab (Rabat) – Dati Drouk training (Rabat) – Haplotès Fund DRAC and Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes Region – Loire & Seine-Saint-Denis Departments – City of Saint-Étienne – ADAMI – SPEDIDAM – CNM