La Nuée

Nacera Belaza is known for her meticulous, minimalist and mesmerising choreography. Born in Algeria and now living in France, she translates diverse influences and dance traditions into addictive kinetic scores which cannot leave you unmoved.

Dance here reveals itself in its purest form: it is something to be experienced rather than explained. Two core principles of research run through Belaza’s work: the circle and rhythm. In her earlier creations, Le Cercle (2018) and L’Onde (2020), she explored each of these dimensions separately with depth and precision. Today, for the first time, they converge: on the one hand, the force of the circle unfolding its orbit around an unchanging center, as if to bring order to the disorder of scattered lives; on the other, rhythm carving into time, lifting bodies to grant them a dazzling freedom. Together, they become a ritual, an impulse towards perpetual motion, an opening onto infinity. In this singular experience, the audience surrounds the dancers, containing and sharing their incandescent energy.