Iskio

Iskio explores our inner feelings, our inner world, and all those sensations we have forgotten but which our bodies have retained in their memory. What happens when language comes up against silence? When the urgency and immediacy of speech are no longer there? How do we communicate? If the body does not lie and we dance what we are, then through every limb, bodies will converse… to better understand one another. To love one another.

DISTRIBUTION
Choreography: Johanna Faye & Saïdo Lehlouh
Performers: Risscla & Mulunesh Tebebu
Lighting: Cyril Mulon
Music: Abraham Diallo
Production Manager: Céline Gallet

PRODUCTION
A production by Cie Black Sheep
Produced by: Garde Robe
Executive production: Collectif FAIR-E / CCN de Rennes et de Bretagne
Co-production: Initiatives d’Artistes en Danses Urbaines — Fondation de France – La Villette 2014, Hip Hop Games Concept Award 2014, supported by Initiatives d’Artistes en Danses Urbaines, Cie Art-Track, Maison Folie Wazemmes and FLOW (Lille).
With the support of the DRAC Île-de-France under the 2015 project grant scheme, the Théâtre de Suresnes Jean Vilar – Cités danse connexions, the Compagnie Dyptik – studio Dyptik, and the CND Pantin as part of its studio residency programme.
For this show, Saïdo Lehlouh and Johanna Faye were in residence at the Agora, Cité Internationale de la Danse, with the support of the BNP Paribas Foundation, in January 2015. Winner of the 2015 Prix Beaumarchais Choreography Competition – SACD / CCN de Créteil et du Val-de-Marne.

Iskio premiered on 4 May 2015 at the Villette Street Festival in Paris, and was subsequently passed on to Risscla & Mulunesh Tebebu in 2021.