The same body, never the same: this statement could serve as a common thread running through Latifa Laâbissi's choreographic work, whether in Self Portrait Camouflage, Adieu et merci, or more recently Cavaliers Impurs, the choreographer's body is criss-crossed by a multitude of heterogeneous figures: blocks of otherness that take possession of her face, her limbs, her imagination - transforming her states, her modes of action and appearance. For this reading, Latifa Laâbissi immerses herself in the performances of Esther Ferrer, a major performer and visual artist. Esther Ferrer's performances take as her starting point the lowest common denominator - things, thoughts, the passage of time - to measure the flaws of reality against the yardstick of the body: an absolutely singular body, which can be documented, evaluated, told through stories and memories. The body draws a line between the visual arts, performance and dance, the intimate and the political. 

Latifa Laâbissi
Choreographer and performer 

Mixing genres and redefining formats, the creations of Latifa Laâbissi bring onstage multiple off-stage / off-field elements channeling different figures and voices. The staging of these voices and the face as a vehicle of minority states ties into the danced portions of the work in Self portrait camouflage (2006) and Loredreamsong (2010). Continuing her thematic study of archives, she created Écran somnambule and La part du rite (2012) based on German dance from the 1920’s. Pourvu qu’on ait l’ivresse (2016), co-signed with the set designer Nadia Lauro, created visions, landscapes and images, combining excess, monstrosity, the beautiful, the random, the comic and fear. Since 2011, Latifa Laâbissi has been Artistic Director of the Extension Sauvage artistic and pedagogical program and festival in rural Brittany. In 2016, a monograph on the ensemble of her work was published by the Editions Les Laboratoires d’Aubervilliers and Les presses du réel. In 2018, she created with Antonia Baehr the performance Consul et Meshie. She also gathered in 2019 for the video Moving Backwards by Pauline Boudry and Renate Lorenz, presented in the Swiss Pavillon of the 58th Venice Biennale. The same year, her creation White Dog was shown at european festivals (Marseille, Tanz im August - Berlin, Automne à Paris, festival TNB Rennes), before a french and international tour. In 2021, the creation Ghost Party (part I) is a duet-performance with the Dutch videomaker Manon de Boer, which forms a pair with a film Ghost Party (part II). Both parts will be exhibited in FRAC Bretagne. At the same time, Latifa Laâbissi prepares a new piece with the brasilian choreographer Marcelo Evelin. This almost all-night party, entitled La Nuit tombe quand elle veut will be created by Fall 2021 at the Festival TNB in Rennes. In 2022, Fugitive Archives a group piece will be created for the CCN Ballet de Lorraine. With Antonia Baehr she presented short sketches within the context of MOVE 2021 in Centre pompidou in Paris. This performance is the starting point of Cavaliers Impurs , a new creation presented in fall 23 in HAU Berlin and Théâtre National de Bretagne where Latifa is an associate artist since 2021.