The title of this dance piece by Nacera Belaza holds two meanings in French: a dark cloud and a dense flock of birds. She developed the performance following a research visit to the First Nation Dakota tribes in North America; she was struck by the communal festive rituals, where participants from different communities danced individually and collectively to an ascending rhythm. For La Nu\u00e9e<\/i>, ten dancers move in a pitch-dark space in a performance that unfolds like a painting being drawn on a black canvas; the successive moving tableaux become visible under very precise jets of light that appear and disappear in tandem with the rhythm of a distinctive and singular soundtrack.<\/p>\n
This performance is La Nu\u00e9e<\/em>‘s Arab world premiere; Belaza has seven professional dancers from her own company plus three SPAA students for this special version of the piece, which is part of Sharjah Art Foundation’s Perform Sharjah<\/a> programme.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"