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FOCU MEU

Benjamin Kahn

ITALIAN PREMIERES, DANCE

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19.06

TEATRO COMUNALE
H 9.30 PM
DURATION 90′

FR

Following the creation of three solo works (“Sorry, But I Feel Slightly Disidentified…”, “Bless the Sound that Saved a Witch like me” and “The Blue Hour”), “Focu Meu” is Benjamin Kahn’s first work for a group.
Together with the six performers, he explores the tensions between individuality and the chorus, between harmony and dissonance, between the intimate scream and collective polyphony.
In the Calabrian dialect, Focu Meu means “the fire”, “the burning in the chest”. This expression encompasses both pain and vitality, loss and the urgency to exist. It is from this sensation of inner burning that Benjamin Kahn seeks to construct a piece about the intensity of emotions, trance and the power of the collective.
He aims to create a space for organic, vibrant dance, where bodies intertwine, exhaust themselves and support one another, giving birth to a beauty that emerges from chaos. Focu Meu is an attempt to transform the burning into light, the cry into song, and the urgency into shared experience.

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concept, choreography, texts, costumes Benjamin Kahn
performance Louis Clément Da Costa, Manon Kanjinga Janssen, Nonoka Kato,Orane Bernard, Théo Aucremanne
sound design Raphaël Hénard
outside eye Cherish Menzo
light design Fudetani Ryoya
costumes Clarisse Brillouet
stage and light manager Neills Doucet
sound engineer Sammy Bichon
administration, production Benjamin Kahn
touring, développement Sandrine Barrasso
administrative support Wouter Bouchez
coproduction Charleroi Danse, Les Brigittines, Studio Thor, Le Carreau du Temple, One Dance Festival (Plovdiv), Gouvernement Flamand (bourse de recherche), Kunstencentrum Viernulvier, December Dance, Wallonie-Bruxelles International, Atelier de Paris/CDCN, IRA Institute, CCN-Ballet national de Marseille
residencies Charleroi Danse, Les Brigittines, Studio Thor, Le Carreau du Temple, One Dance Festival (Plovdiv), Viernulvier, Atelier de Paris/CDCN, IRA Residencies program, Centre national de la Danse
with the support of KLAP Maison pour la danse à Marseille, Actoral Marseille, Wallonie-Bruxelles International

Bio

Benjamin Kahn is a dancer and choreographer based in Brussels. He studied dramaturgy and theatre at the University of Aix en Provence and the Conservatoire de Rennes, and is graduated from ESAC (École Supérieure des Arts du Cirque) in Belgium.
Following his studies, he worked with choreographers such as Philippe Saire, Benjamin Vandewalles, Nicole Beutler, Ben Riepe, Frédéric Flamand, Maud Le Pladec, Egle Budvytyte and Alessandro Sciaronni.
He is also an outside eye and dramaturgist for other projects (Cuir / Cie Un loup pour l’homme, Darkmatter / Cherish Menzo among others) and teaches dance at the CNAC, ESAC and conservatoires.
Since 2019 he created his own projects.
Seeing dance and choreography as powerful political tools, he is particularly interested in constructing and deconstructing the way we view individual and collective bodies. Drawing on the interdisciplinarity of his background and the richness of his studio encounters with singular performers, he creates pieces that combine texts, precise choreographic writing and powerful sound and light landscapes to question the issues of the society. Between 2019 and 2023 he will be creating a trilogy of solos : “Sorry, But I Feel Slightly Disidentified… “ (2019), “Bless the Sound that Saved a Witch like me” (March 2023) and The Blue Hour (June 2023), questioning projections onto bodies, the gaze, and the link between the intimate and the collective.
In 2026 he creates his first group piece: Focu Meu.