Attouh

Attouh de Hippolyte Bohouo Danse Avec Attouh, choreographer Hippolyte Bohouo offers a deeply human choreographic piece, built around a simple and essential gesture: the embrace. En Côte d’Ivoire, "se faire Attouh" (to embrace), is to give each other a warm, tender, and joyful hug, a gesture of reunion, connection, and presence to the other. In a society marked by speed, isolation, work pressure, over-commitment, and the risk of burnout, Attouh invites us to slow down and rediscover the meaning of contact. The show gently questions the fragile balance between self-giving and the need to preserve one's own space. How to be present to others without losing oneself? How to be collective without forgetting oneself? On stage, bodies run, seek each other, cross paths, sometimes collide, then open up to the encounter. Arms become supports, impulses, refuges. The dance reveals the possibility of care, attention, and shared benevolence. For this performance, experienced amateurs will be integrated into the show. Their presence will further strengthen the collective dimension of the project: making the stage a place of meeting, transmission, and shared experience, where everyone can take part in this simple and necessary gesture that is the Attouh. Crédits Julia Bondone / Carlos Dou Becho / Pacöme Landry Seka Conception / Chorégraphie Hippolyte Bohouo Collaboration dramaturgy Karolina Svobodova Scénographie / Costumes Moni Wespi Création lighting Jody de Neef Création sound and music Osvaldo Hernandez / Patricia Van Cauwenberge / Clélia Patrono Avec with the help of the Fédération Wallonie-Brussels, Service Général of the Création Artistique – Dance Service Soutiens Charleroi Danse / Le Grand Studio / Le 140 / Le Studio Thor / Le Centre Culturel of Engis / Le Senghor / Le Marni / La Maison of the Culture Famenne-Ardenne / La Fabrique de Théâtre