Martyre

Echoing to Sa prière (her prayer),  created ten years ago, Malika Djardi once again tackles the solo documentary format, focusing on her mother, Marie-Bernadette Philippon, who now suffers from Alzheimer’s disease.
She began dancing even though she had never danced before, and her dance appears as a new language: it takes us on a journey through spaces, the private and the public, the constrained and the infinitely large, the intimate and the world. What remains of our shared or individual memories? The choreographer weaves a delicate and benevolent dialogue with her mother’s dances, as a means of expression for this constrained body, faced with her own choreographic trajectory. Alongside questions about learning, the memory of certain rhythms or dances, it traces the path of a reflection on the shared journey of choreographic writing: one arises spontaneously and the other is written on stage. What gestures are transmitted? Where do they come from? In dialogue with refrains and the diverted practice of social dances, questions arise about our commitments, our vital struggles, our illusions, our fragilities, and the sufferings we go through in the course of a life that is both destructive and promising.