Since 2010, Héla Fattoumi and Éric Lamoureux have endeavoured to transfer the knowledge of their repertoire to a young generation of dancers.They began revisiting their pieces Husaïs (awarded 1st prize at the 1990 International Choreographic competition in Bagnolet) and Après-midi (Afternoon, awarded the prize for new talent by the SACD in 1991). They had danced these works themselves and would have to reconstruct them archaeologically from their own fragmented memories.
Today, continuing along this path, they are proposing a creation stemming from the solo,Wasla-ce qui relie, created in 1998 for the Dance Biennial in Lyon. This iconic work came about through a creation residency at the National Theatre of Tunis inside the legendary Halfaouine Palace. Working from the original elements, the two choreographers have reinvented a work for four women, dancers in the Tunisian Junior National Ballet.
By creating BNETT WASLA, Héla Fattoumi and Eric Lamoureux begin a true transcultural and inter generational experience, working on the relationship between the individual and the collective, working with issues linked to female empowerment. From the curved alcove against which the dancers lean their backs, comes a whole syntax of coiled shapes, wrapping and revealing their chrysalid bodies. The dancers slide from one side to the other of a wall, and when they do leave it, the dance seems to surreptitiously step out of a just-erased impression. Awakened from this shelter, the dancers advance, showing a sensual twist, a strangely diaphanous state which transforms their faces, their serpentine hands allowing desire to permeate the most secret of bodies …