Latifa Laâbissi

Biography

Latifa Laâbissi studied contemporary dance in France and with the Cunningham studio in New York. As a performer she has worked with Jean-Claude Gallotta, Thierry Baë, Georges Appaix, Loïc Touzé, Jennifer Lacey and Nadia Lauro, Boris Charmatz and Robyn Orlin. In 2008 she creates her own company : Figure Project. Her choreographies include “Self Portrait Camouflage” (2006), “Histoire par celuiqui la raconte” (2008), “Loredreamsong” (2010), “La part du rite” (2012), “Écran somnambule” (2012), “Adieu et merci” (2013) and “Pourvu qu’on ait l’ivresse” (2016). Mixing genres, reflecting upon and redefining formats, Laâbissi’s work seeks to bring onstage multiple offstage perspectives; an anthropological landscape in which stories, figures and voices are placed and highlighted. Dance “codes” are disturbed by recalcitrant bodies, alternative stories, montages of materials infiltrated by certain signs of the times. She has presented her work internationally at such institutions as the Festival d’Automne (Paris), Centre Georges Pompidou (Paris), the Festival d’Avignon, Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofia (Madrid), the Taipei Fine Arts Museum (Taiwan), the MoMA PS1 (New York) and the Centro Municipal de Arte Hélio Oiticica, (Rio de Janeiro).