Dawri
It all begins with a word: Dawri, meaning “turn.” This ancestral Tunisian refrain, whispered by women, becomes the epicentre of a choreographic uprising in which movement is rooted in the relentless cycle of existence: birth, ecstasy, resistance, release, death.
At the heart of this circularity lies the strength of the collective and the unconditional embrace of the other. Dawri raises an essential question: how do we stay together in intensity, at the thresholds of life? How do we accompany one another into the unknown? How do we hold a body through which intensity surges? How do we support those who are unravelling?
Forged between Tunis and Montreal, and performed by five dancers and one singer, this work of flesh and breath is a raw surge of energy, a collective act of survival. A continuous motion in which bodies anchor themselves to one another to gather, rise, and together, never stop turning.