Performance - TUQS, Khalil Epi

TUQUS isan immersive audiovisual performance that explores musical and gestural traditions associated with trance and collective gatherings in the Mediterranean region. With a title meaning “ritual” in Arabic, the work seeks to uncover the connections between these traditions across history, territories, and shared migration patterns, blending electronic music with a documentary approach. From Greece to Palestine, from Egypt to Morocco, from Italy to Tunisia, the forms vary, but the underlying gesture remains the same everywhere: music and its repetition draw the body into dance, toward a moment of togetherness where trance emerges and the bonds between the living are strengthened.

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This project builds on Khalil Epi’s work on popular and ritual music, which beganwith Aïchoucha.TUQUS expandsthis research both geographically and symbolically to offer a powerful and deeply embodied stage experience, where the concert becomes a shared ritual.