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DESCRIPTION:Jun 14 - Jul 8\, 2026\nThis year’s Festival de Marseille is a
 lmost a caricature of the current dance scene. There’s a piece for every
  species of marginalized: the prisoner\, the survivor of failed revolution
  and state\, the disabled\, the exile and immigrant\, even the obscure fol
 k form. But the choreographers approach these grim realities by hip\, urba
 n means. North African gnawa music\, conducive to trance states\, slides t
 oward rave in the 250-person Urban Gnawa Project\, as in\, less massively\
 , Taoufiq Izeddiou’s Border Dance. Mahraganat—the popular dance music 
 that sprung up with the Arab Spring—becomes an instrument for personal c
 onfession in the hands of the Egyptian choreographic team Temps Fort Mahra
 ganat. Everyone is sequined in Argentine Lisi Estaras’s “differently a
 bled” What We Can Do Together. And to convey Afghani rural society under
  imperialist duress\, Feda Wardak populates his monumental stage set with 
 choreographer Saïdo Lehlouh’s loose hip-hop to Tunisian D.J. Deena Abde
 lwahed’s glitchy\, eerie\, airless electronica. The Maghreb figures larg
 ely\, as it does in Marseille. When not\, the festival maintains the city
 ’s bright\, rough character with works by likeminded choreographers\, su
 ch as the award-winning Belfast tough Oona Doherty and Moritz Ostruschnjak
 \, whose spirited\, gestural NON + ULTRAS flutters with 500 sports-fan sca
 rves.
LOCATION:Various Venues
SUMMARY:Festival de Marseille
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