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Husaïs set the decisive themes of Héla Fattoumi and Eric Lamoureux’s choreographic approach, stemming from according their two personalities. Fine-tuning two imaginative worlds, as Christine Roquet writes in Fattoumi-Lamoureux, Danser l’entre l’autre, “presupposes no ‘harmony’, but operates also in friction, tension – and certainly, equally, a shared softness.”

Husaïs is constructed from the interplay of waiting, drawing together, brushing together, separating, and infectiousness – inscribing two dance scores for soloists, each necessary to the other and yet independent. From this relationship emanates a sort of tension where the exploration of contrary elements or events imposes a quartering that leads not to rupture, rending, or separation, but to the resonance of this link between them.

The dancing emerges minimalistic and virtuoso, soothing and spurting forth, fluid and syncopated, it draws angular paths, chiselled trajectories that seem to arise from inner surges to create an experience of otherness.

Premiere November 1989, Théâtre de Châtillon (FR) Festival Temps Danse
Recreation August 27th, 2008, MJC – Maison des Jeunes et de la Culture, Kani-Kéli, Mayotte

Choreography: Héla Fattoumi/Éric Lamoureux
Original cast: Héla Fattoumi et Éric Lamoureux
Performed by: Marine Chesnais et Moustapha Ziane ou Bastien Lefèvre
Music: Éric Lamoureux – Excerpts from Grieg Peer Gynt, Kreidler, Sébastien Roux
Lighting: Yves Godin
Costume: Marilyne Lafay
Production: Cie Fattoumi-Lamoureux (1988) et Centre Chorégraphique National de Caen/Basse-Normandie (CCNC/BN) (2008)
Awards: Prix SACD pour la première œuvre – Rencontres Chorégraphiques Internationales de Bagnolet (1990), Lauréats concours interprètes de la Ville de Paris (1987)