Shabaab - Samar Haddad King

As part of the Faits d'hiver festival, choreographer Samar Haddad King presents Shabaab. Blending dance, theatre, and manipulation, she brings forth an intimate memory where friendship becomes a space for survival, tenderness, and resistance.

We first discovered Samar Haddad King with Losing it, created with Samaa Wakim, and now we find her again with Shabaab (youth, in Arabic), which celebrates male friendship.

Moving away from reductive representations focused on strength or confrontation, she allows the beauty and tenderness that can emerge between two young men to unfold.

To depict them and give them depth, where words often fail and modesty prevails, her two performers are doubled by a puppet that expresses emotions denied to real bodies.

Through this figure, childhood dreams resurface, memories return, times intertwine, allowing a possible intimacy to emerge, a form of connection and affection that continues its subterranean existence even when individuals are seemingly deprived of it.