Utrecht | Stadsschouwburg
Fr 11 October, 20h30

Amsterdam | De Balie
Sat 12 October, 20h30

Act(s) and Sweats is the final part of a triptych in which Tunisian choreographer Hamdi Dridi pays tribute to the hard-working body. It is a choreography in the form of a ‘sound study’ in which Dridi transforms everyday repetitive gestures and actions into dance. He choreographs what the body carries with it as a memory. Beneath Dridi’s gestures, working bodies subtly appear: a movement, a colourful scarf, a voice, a melody.

He connects fragments of memories – of his family, the Middle East and Egypt, the rhythms and colours of his childhood and adolescence – with his Arab roots and an homage to Tunis. His timeless hip-hop is enhanced by the music, a mix of industrial sounds, funk and traditional songs, touching the most sensitive emotions.

‘I build a flexible work, at the time of its representation, revealing the questions of the body, of the art, the links to human, shot through with our acts, joined here by this sweat’. Hamdi Dridi

Previously at Bozar Brussels 2020, Carthage Dance 2022, Théâtre Francine Vasse Nantes 2023