{"id":455,"date":"2026-03-05T16:44:34","date_gmt":"2026-03-05T16:44:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.annavanneau.com\/work\/autre\/ayta-en\/"},"modified":"2026-03-12T21:18:47","modified_gmt":"2026-03-12T21:18:47","slug":"ayta","status":"publish","type":"anne_project","link":"https:\/\/www.annavanneau.com\/en\/work\/artiste-choregraphique\/ayta\/","title":{"rendered":"Ayta"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3><em>Ayta<\/em> is a call to protest, a choreographic manifestation carried by six performers engaged in a profoundly collective movement.<\/h3>\n<p>Youness Aboulakoul drew inspiration from the ayta, a musical practice integrated into various celebrations, and from its history, to imagine their journey, made up of advances, folds and uprisings. Ayta (&#8220;cry&#8221; in Moroccan dialect Arabic) is a song of outer splendor and inner pain, a catalyst of emotions and social aspirations, exalting freedom and the quest for justice. The choreographer compares it with the &#8220;fold&#8221;, theorized by Gilles Deleuze, here represented as the constraint exerted on the individual&#8217;s body, which must therefore resist it in order to maintain its verticality. Working on the tension between the desire for elevation and the inevitable fold, and exploring this space-in-between, Youness Aboulakoul and his collaborators propose a dance that opposes any attempt at folding, and places <em>Ayta<\/em> in the continuity of a choreographic approach centered on violence. Attached to the question of the female body and the violence to which it bears witness, the piece closes a trilogy begun in 2019 with Today Is a Beautiful Day, followed by Mille Miles in 2022.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Credits<br \/>\n<\/strong>Conception, choreography: Youness Aboulakoul<br \/>\nWith : Nefeli Asteriou, Marie-Laure Caradec, Sophie L\u00e8bre, Cassandre Mu\u00f1oz, Anna Vanneau, L\u00e9onore Zurfl\u00fch Artistic assistant: Pep Guarrigues<br \/>\nSound creation: Youness Aboulakoul<br \/>\n<span class=\"wixui-rich-text__text\"><span class=\"color_14 wixui-rich-text__text\">Sound manager: Atbane Zouheir<\/span><\/span>Lighting: Jean Fran\u00e7ois Desboeoufs &amp; Jeronimo Roe Costume: Audrey Gendre<\/p>\n<p><strong>Production<br \/>\n<\/strong>Producer: Cie Ayoun<br \/>\nCoproduction <span class=\"wixui-rich-text__text\"><span class=\"color_14 wixui-rich-text__text\">: Klap Maison pour la danse \u00e0 Marseille in co-production with Th\u00e9\u00e2tre Joliette, sc\u00e8ne conventionn\u00e9e art et cr\u00e9ation-\u00e9critures contemporaines ; P\u00f4le Sud-CDCN, Strasbourg, Le Gymnase-CDCN Roubaix ; Les Hivernales-CDCN Avignon ; CCN2, Grenoble ; CCN-Ballet de Lorraine ; CCN de Nantes ; La Place de la Danse-CDCN, Toulouse ; Espaces Pluriels, Pau ; Maison de la Danse de Lyon ; P\u00f4le Arts de la sc\u00e8ne &#8211; Friche La Belle de Mai ; Caisse des d\u00e9p\u00f4ts et consignation ; DRAC, Auvergne-Rh\u00f4ne-Alpes, ADAMI<br \/>\n<\/span><\/span><span class=\"wixui-rich-text__text\"><span class=\"color_14 wixui-rich-text__text\">Production and distribution : Kumquat\/ performing arts<br \/>\n<\/span><\/span><span class=\"wixui-rich-text__text\"><span class=\"color_14 wixui-rich-text__text\">Administration: Saul Dovin<br \/>\n<\/span><\/span><span class=\"wixui-rich-text__text\"><span class=\"color_14 wixui-rich-text__text\">Booking: Jean-Baptiste Bosson<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ayta is a call to protest, a choreographic manifestation carried by six performers engaged in a profoundly collective movement. Youness Aboulakoul drew inspiration from the ayta, a musical practice integrated into various celebrations, and from its history, to imagine their journey, made up of advances, folds and uprisings. Ayta (&#8220;cry&#8221; in Moroccan dialect Arabic) is [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":385,"menu_order":0,"template":"","anne_project_cat":[3],"class_list":["post-455","anne_project","type-anne_project","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","anne_project_cat-artiste-choregraphique","en-US"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.annavanneau.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/anne_project\/455","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.annavanneau.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/anne_project"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.annavanneau.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/anne_project"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.annavanneau.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/385"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.annavanneau.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=455"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"anne_project_cat","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.annavanneau.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/anne_project_cat?post=455"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}