Kabylifornie
Agathe Yamina Meziani

Alone on stage, Agathe/Yamina Meziani tells us about her father through Kabylia, and about Kabylia through her father. She talks about car drives, loud music, jokes that aren't always funny, family archives, Kabylian legends, and her two first names - Agathe or Yamina, depending.

Through a series of short, funny and poignant stories, she reconstructs a fragmented and sensitive memory, navigating between childhood memories, complex family ties and cultural heritage. It's an attempt at reconciliation without forgiveness, a puzzle where the intimate and the political are woven together through humour, doubt and silence.

Kabylifornie is a journey between the images we keep, those we invent and those we would like to forget. With tenderness and lucidity, Meziani searches for what we receive without having asked for it, what we choose in spite of ourselves, and what we pass on - sometimes transforming it.

Artistic team:
Conception and performance: Agathe Yamina MezianiOutside eye: Antoine Defoort
Artistic collaboration and assistance: Lorena Spindler & Antonin Compère
Outside eye: Antoine Defoort
Writing: Nina Vanspranghe
Dramaturgy: in progress
Set design: Ji-Min Park
Lighting design: Laurence Halloy
Video and Sound design: Sacha Cardinet
Stage management: Gleb Panteleeff

Production: 
Les Halles de Schaerbeek

Co-production: 
MC93 - Maison de la Culture de Seine-Saint-Denis, as part of Common Stories, a Creative Europe programme funded by the European Union

Atelier 210

Support and residencies: 
Fédération Wallonie Bruxelles - Interdisciplinary project grant, La Bellone, Compagnie Tristero, Studio L’envers, La Verrière, Piano Fabriek, Compagnie Mossoux Bonté, Kunst festival

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