…And Nobody Else
─ 2024
...And Nobody Else explores the quest for an ever-evolving identity, the search for a free self within a body that feels too narrow.
Alongside dancer Hamza Damra and drummer-singer Tim ClijsTers, Ahmed Ayed delves into questions of identity and the freedom to be oneself beyond the masks we wear or that are imposed upon us. The performance highlights the tension between the pursuit of authenticity and the roles we play, as well as the invisible compromises that shape our lives.
Through movement, the metamorphosis of body and space, and the raw pulse of drums, ...And Nobody Else takes us on an initiatory journey where different versions of the self meet and intertwine.
Conception and choreography: Ahmed Ayed
Performance: Hamza Damra and Tim Clijsters
Music composition: Tim Clijsters
Assistant director: Amber Kemp
Dramaturgy: Patrick Michel
Lighting design: Suzanna Bauer
Set design: Thomas Delord
Costumes: Aswad El Masrahi
Choreographic guidance: Soa Ratsifandrihana and Habib Ben Tanfous
Sound engineer: Arthur Wouters
Lighting operation: Suzanna Bauer and Gleb Panteleff
Delegated production and touring: Théâtre de la Vie (Manon Di Romano)
A production by Collectif Illicium, in coproduction with Théâtre de la Vie, La Coop asbl and Shelter Prod, Les Halles de Schaerbeek, Les Brigittines, La Charge du Rhinocéros, C’est Central La Louvière, with the support of taxshelter.be, ING and the Belgian federal tax shelter, COCOF, SABAM, SACD, L’Escaut and Iles asbl.