Black Hole + Not Your Techno Club Night

Black Hole is a music and dance performance by DJ and sound artist Sara Dziri, who, together with dancer-choreographer Yasmina Tayoub, explores the intersections of rave culture and North-African trance traditions. Drawing from Sara Dziri’s research on trance practices in Egypt and Tunisia, the performance invites the audience into an imaginary rave space between dark escapism and otherworldly bliss.

During a work visit to Cairo, Sara Dziri was inspired by the zār, an ancient trance-like healing ritual typically associated with women and outsider communities, who use ecstatic dancing to find solace, liberation and meaningful connection. She saw strong resemblances with rave culture: community, healing, and connection through dance and music, far from the eyes of societal and political condemnation. With Black Hole she wants to highlight rave culture and trance traditions as spaces of resistance and connection.

In English and Arabic

Not Your Techno

21:00 – 22:00: Black Hole performance

22:00 – 00:00: Samar

00:00 – fin: Cheb Runner

Black Hole | Concept & direction Sara Dziri I Performance Sara Dziri & Yasmina Tayoub I Choreography Yasmina Tayoub I Music Sara Dziri I Light design & scenography Arnaud De Wolf I Costumes Kenza Taleb I Dramaturgy & choreography assistance Mohamed Toukabri I Sound Engineer Elsa Grelot I Production Kunstenwerkplaats I Coproduction deSingel, Kanal – Centre Pompidou, Beursschouwburg, C-Takt, Dream City/l’Art Rue I Thanks to KAAP, de Brakke Grond, Goethe Institut Cairo I With the support of Vlaamse overheid & Vlaamse Gemeenschapscommissie I Special thanks to Nedjma Hadj Benchalabi, Shaymaa Shoukry & Senda Jebali.