La Terre en Transe - Taoufiq Izeddiou

Taoufiq Izeddiou
Taoufiq Izeddiou is a choreographer, dancer, teacher, and the artistic director of the contemporary dance festival in Morocco, On Marche. He was honored with the ‘Chevalier des Arts et des Lettres’ by the French government in 2019. Born in Marrakech, Taoufiq Izeddiou studied architecture and practiced boxing and theater before turning to dance. In the 1990s, his meeting with Bernardo Montet was decisive, opening him up to the professional scene, notably at the Centre Chorégraphique National de Tours in France.

Taoufiq Izeddiou presented his first choreography in the year 1999, founded his dance company Anania in 2003, and set up the first contemporary dance training in Morocco in 2003. In 2005, he created the On Marche Festival, the first international contemporary dance festival in Morocco that is still alive today.

Going back and forth from Morocco and the rest of the world, he has created works that explore the tensions between tradition and modernity, including Cœur sans corps, Clandestins CSC, Desert Desire, Aataba, Aaléef, Rev’illusion, En Alerte, Botero en Orient, and Border-Line. Between 2021 and 2024, he created a trilogy on trance, the three parts of which, Hmadcha, Hors du monde, and La Terre en transe, are currently on tour. His next creation, Border Dance, will be released in 2026.

The creations of Taoufiq Izeddiou have been welcomed at the most prestigious events such as Danse Afrique Danse, Montpellier Danse, Charleroi Danse, the Rencontres Chorégraphiques Internationales de Seine-Saint-Denis, the CND in Paris, Tanzquartier in Vienna, TransAmerica in Montréal, HAU in Berlin, and the Kunstenfestivaldesarts in Brussels…etc.

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