Rive
Dalila Belaza
© Luca Ianelli
In 2024, Dance Reflections by Van Cleef & Arpels is supporting Maison de la Danse for the presentation of Rive by Dalila Belaza.
Dalila Belaza unleashes her joyful trance for the first time on the Maison de la Danse stage in a nine-dancer fresco. Having performed for two decades with her sister, Nacera, Dalila Beleza has become keen to create her own choreographic work over the past several years. She seeks out the intimate and the mysterious within us.
Rive is a dialogue between light, dance and space, a rigorous and inspirational journey. Using the 'pas de bourrée' dance step as her starting point, the choreographer creates a rhythmic trance that spreads through all nine performers, like sparks feeding a fire. More than a show, Rive is a sensory and poetic experience where bodies move alone or in unison. The unseen and the unsettling radiate from these gestures of exceptional presence. Rive is an invitation to an enchanting journey, combining traditional and contemporary dance in a shared momentum.
About the artist
© Luca Ianelli
Dalila Belaza
Through dance, Dalila Belaza seeks utopian territory where the intimate and the universal meet as two infinite horizons. She first made a name for herself as a performer and the artistic partner of her sister, the choreographer Nacera Belaza. Together, they paved a significant path in the choreographic landscape through their investigation into the deep memories of the body and a dance inhabited by a limitless inner space. Drawing on this foundation, Belaza felt the need over time to give voice and form to her own questions. This trajectory has led her to pursue various lines of inquiry, extending this field of being to other realities.
For several years now, Belaza has been directing her own projects and developing work that probes the theme of identity and explores the dialogue between ritual dance and abstraction. At the end of 2020, Dalila Belaza founded hiya compagnie to ensure the development and sustainability of her personal projects. Since then, she has created three shows, Au cœur, Figures and Rive which blend the languages of folk dance and contemporary dance. These shows depict an adventure, both artistic and philosophical.
