Sycomore
Saphir Belkheir

In queer communities, blood does not necessarily mean protection. Chosen families with friends are often created. Building on this chosen family notion, Saphir Belkheir reinvents his lineage. Dialoguing with personalities from the past, real or fictional, he tries to better understand the roots of his own dance to better prepare the journey ahead.

Artistic team:
Choreography, performance, set design: Saphir Belkheir
External eye: Morgane Brien-Hamdane 
Music and live performance: Syqlone
Light design: Myriam Bertin

Film: 
Directed by Saphir Belkheir
Director of photography: Makoto C. Friedmann
Director assistant: Mélodie Preux
Light design: Alice Brunnquell
Editing and calibration: Tomè-Manon Cotte
With Saphir Belkheir and Maëlice Joyce Denis

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

Coproduction: 
Alkantara Lisbon, afriCOLOGNE, Riksteatern Stockholm, as part of Common Stories, a Creative Europe programme funded by the European Union I Fonds Transfabrik - Franco-German Fund for Performing Arts

With support from: 
RheinEnergieStiftung Kultur and Parallèle - Pratiques artistiques émergentes internationales Residencies: ICI-CCN de Montpellier I La Briqueterie CDCN du Val-de-Marne I Point Éphémère I Les Ateliers Médicis I Théâtre Joliette, Scène Conventionnée d’intérêt national « Art et Création » pour la diversité des écritures contemporaines

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