January 18th, 2024 Le Grand Café, Saint-Nazaire
4 hours
As part of Trajectoires Dance Festival, Le Grand Café will also exhibit a video from Nicolas Floc’h and present a solo performance from Ola Maciejewska. You will have occasion to exchange with these three artists.
The Art of Waiting
For 4 hours, 6 men seem to be waiting for something or someone in the confined space of the white cube. This performative motif has its source in the urban practice of Hittism* specific to the Algerian public space. There, the relationship to public and private places is governed by belonging to a genre. Hittism also gives substance to a whole idle and unemployed youth, which takes its place in the streets.
*The term Hittisme, Hold the wall, comes from the word Hit, wall in Arabic, associated with the French suffix « ism ».