Drawing on family archives and personal anecdotes, Habib Ben Tanfous makes his body the epicentre of an intimate and playful exploration into the ambivalence of inheritance. What should we do with what has been left to us, but does not belong to us? What do we pass on to others?
Surrounded by the music and voices that populate his past and present, Habib Ben Tanfous creates a striking solo about the tug-of-war, grief and joys that accompany the development of a life of one’s own.
Habib Ben Tanfous is a Belgian-French-Tunisian artist born and based in Brussels, where he started training in hip hop dance at the age of 15. He graduated from the Conservatoire Royal de Bruxelles in 2018 and studied Dance and Choreographic Practices at Charleroi danse/INSAS/La Cambre in 2019. He regularly collaborates as a dancer-performer (Manoël Dupont, Harpo Guit, Hélène Theunissen, Diane Fourdrignier, Adeline Rosenstein, Armel Roussel, Pauline d’Ollone et Olivia Grandville), external eye and co-creator. He is a member of the RAVIE collective which runs the Théâtre de la Vie in Brussels.
Conception, choreography, performance Habib Ben Tanfous / Sound creation Theo Rota / Costume creation Amandine Laval / Scenography, lights design Aurore Leduc / Artistic collaborator Elisa Firouzfar / Dramaturgy Adeline Rosenstein / Collaborator in the dramaturgy Arnaud Timmermans, Thomas Schaupp / Choreographic Look Mercedes Dassy / Production and dissemination Ama Brussels
A show of la compagnie FINEK with the support of Asbl Ravie / Delegated production Atelier 210, amabrussels / Co-production Atelier 210, Charleroi danse, Les SUBS – lieu vivant d’expériences artistiques Lyion, Théâtre Varia, Ravie asbl / Suporte y residencias Charleroi danse, Kunstencentrum BUDA, le BAMP, Iles / Artist Project, Les SUBS – lieu vivant d’experiencias artísticas Lyon, La Bellone, Maison du Spectacle, CSC Centro per la Scena Contemporanea & Bora Bora dans le cadre de Dance & Dramaturgy European Network (D&D EU) / Support by la Fédéración Wallonie Bruxelles – Service général de la Création artistique, de taxshelter.be, d’ING et du tax-shelter du gouvernement fédéral belge, de Wallonie-Bruxelles International, de Wallonie-Bruxelles Théâtre / Danse
