Since 2016, Argentine choreographer and dancer Lisi Estaras— a leading performer with Alain Platel, Peeping Tom and Sidi Larbi Cherkaoui—has devoted herself to inclusive dance, working with performers of diverse abilities. With What We Can Do Together, she creates a space of encounter and productive friction between different sensibilities, bodies, disabilities and dance styles. And between languages: sign language, spoken language, choreographic language, written language—so that each individual can find their place within a climate of attentive listening and mutual understanding.
Within this temporary community is the celebrated one-legged performer Musa Motha, who began dancing pantsula, hip-hop and sbhujwa in the streets of Johannesburg before taking part in the opening ceremony of the 2024 Summer Olympics.
For Lisi Estaras, every means is valid for communicating, listening and sharing experience through a series of vivid, joyful tableaux: mime, speech, gesture, posture, movement and music. Not forgetting humour and playfulness, which become the natural adornment of a celebration of singular bodies reclaiming their place with pride.
Les représentations à Marseille reçoivent le soutien des autorités flamandes ainsi que de l’Institut français d’Afrique du Sud et de l’Ambassade de France en Afrique du Sud, au Lesotho et au Malawi.
