Marseille

'RÉBÉTIKO - SONGS FROM GREECE AND MINOR ASIA' - 'A contemplative moment of music from a region at the crossroads of East and West

When Maura Guerrera’s luminous and soulful voice meets Malik Ziad’s mandole and guembri, the vocal traditions of Sicily are imbued with the exalted melodies and rhythms of the Mediterranean… Listening to the vibrations that run through it, the duo, enriched by the poetic, sensitive and vibrant presence of Manu Théron, transports us from one shore to the other of the Mare Nostrum, in a deep and intense sonic journey.

For this workshop blending dance and theatre, Dasha Sedova and Omar Aljbaai, in association with the Artists in Exile workshop, invite us to reintroduce the notions of play and joy into our daily movement practices. Over the course of an hour and a half, participants will explore walking, bodily interactions in everyday situations, and ways of occupying space with a fresh perspective.

As a self-taught artist and culinary expert with a particular interest in North African Judeo-Arabic cuisine, Rafram Chaddad transforms the hammam into a place not only for treatment and relaxation but also for food and sharing. One afternoon, he took over the Zein hammam in Marseille, located near the Old Port, and offered to cook and serve dishes to clients during their treatments.

All around us, as we walk through the city, are texts, words, letters. David Poullard invites us to discover this written cacophony, which has a form, an origin, a state of existence that invites questions and offers valuable lessons to those who take the time to look at it with curiosity. He will explore a series of "cases" during a walk that will take us from the Reformed Quarter to the Old Port, passing through three distinct neighborhoods.

Flamenco's history is rooted in the memory of a harmonious Andalusia, where the beauty of nature and the stars, nourished by the wisdom of the Ancients and ancient Arabic poetry, coexisted with Visigothic, Moorish, Jewish, Christian, and Amazigh cultures. Its Gypsy heritage also connects it to an intense and proud music. Andalusia, perhaps even more than a symbol of a civilization founded on the meeting of the three monotheistic religions, symbolizes an idyllic golden age between East and West, far removed from the alarming ecological context of today's Mediterranean.