Black Hole: The New Cycle

KWP production

Residencies

  • 17.03 > 22.03.2025

A lone raver’s body in the void, rest­less. Searching for some­thing in the pul­se, in the dark, in the weight­less pull of sound.

Black Hole is not a par­ty. It is a rite, a pas­sa­ge, a col­li­si­on of past and pre­sent whe­re a lone­so­me raver finds sola­ce in move­ment and sound. Guided by the raw ener­gy of 90s rave syn­ths and bas­sli­nes, entwi­ned with ethe­re­al echoes, this con­tem­po­ra­ry ritu­al emer­ges from North African tran­ce tra­di­ti­ons, unfol­ding in the limi­nal spa­ce bet­ween soli­tu­de and com­mu­nion. A body in moti­on, led by music that cleanses, that lifts, that reclaims. The audien­ce bears wit­ness — to lon­ging, to relea­se, to old tran­ce bre­a­thing into the new. Leaving behind what was never meant to hold us. Dancing to esca­pe and then to return.

Between con­cert and dan­ce per­for­man­ce, Sara Dziri inves­ti­ga­tes the raver’s expe­rien­ce from her own per­spec­ti­ve, explo­ring tran­ce as a spa­ce of trans­for­ma­ti­on, exi­le, and belonging.

Concept & direc­ti­on Sara Dziri I Performance Sara Dziri & Nabil Ennassouh I Choreography Sara Dziri & Marco Torrice I Light design: Arnaud De Wolf I Sound Engineer Elsa Grelot I Production Kunstenwerkplaats I Coproduction deSingel, Kanal — Centre Pompidou, Beursschouwburg, C‑Takt, Dream City/l’Art Rue I Thanks to KAAP, de Brakke Grond, Goethe Institut Cairo I With the sup­port of Vlaamse over­heid & Vlaamse Gemeenschapscommissie I Special thanks to Uncontrolled Gestures, Nedjma Hadj Benchalabi, Shaymaa Shoukry & Senda Jebali.