The architecturally inclined choreographer Radouan Mriziga shares the American minimalist obsession with repetitive pattern but not the high modernist stripping of cultural signs. Indeed, the Maghreb pervades the Brussels-based Moroccan’s designs. In this respect, he is on trend: if anything marks contemporary work coming out of Europe right now, it’s the intriguing mashup of a very Western, insouciant pedestrianism with the folk expressions of the once-colonized. The Festival de Marseille presents the solo Atlas/The Mountain (June 20 and 21) and the ensemble piece Magec/The Desert (June 19 and 20)—two parts of a planned trilogy inspired by the indigenous Berber approach to this vast, unforgiving terrain: “humility rather than dominance.” —Apollinaire Scherr