Libya

Radouan Mriziga creates forms that are both dances and ideas—forms that reflect on and reclaim the meaning of our history, our current era, and the time we share together. A choreographer hailing from Marrakech, Mriziga is a custodian of ancestral knowledge and the stories of those excluded from dominant narratives. His interests include Amazigh studies and the creation of functional and imaginary spaces. His works have been described as “performed knowledge,” turning dance into a vehicle for disseminating and sharing wisdom. Highly sophisticated and complex both formally and conceptually, they are also powerful emotional experiences.

In 2014, after studying in Tunisia and graduating from P.A.R.T.S. in Brussels, Mriziga soon made a name for himself in the dance world with his choreographic performances and installations inspired by crafts and architecture, such as 55 (2014), 7 (2017), and 0 (2019). While artist-in-residence at Kaaitheater in Brussels from 2017 to 2021, he created 3600 (2016), in which four performers erect a new world in 3,600 seconds, guided by Islamic art and modern architecture. Radically anti-colonial, his artistic project is driven by a lucid approach that questions the limitations of neo-liberal society while pursuing the creation of a more expansive, multi-dimensional world. Libya celebrates the body as a bearer of knowledge and memories that are identified as universal.