La Fracture
Belgium (Wallonia)
The Fracture
direction & text
Yasmine Yahiatène
The daughter was born in France, the father in Algeria. The journey to one’s own roots begins with the question of what this means.
language
French with German & English surtitles
duration
65 min
more about the artist
A young woman tells a story. Hers and her father’s. Or rather her story and the role her father plays in it. Or, why he doesn’t play much of a role in it anymore. And what that means. Where it comes from. What’s missing. Where the gaps are, the blank patches in a landscape, which are called biography or Algeria or France. How many experiments do you have to do, which scenarios do you have to invent to find the path back to your own roots, to re-establish contact, locate a starting point, make amends, for resilience or healing?
In her solo piece, Yasmine Yahiatène shares the stage with a video screen and her drawing pencil. She’s the writer, searcher and protagonist in a story that describes a journey to her Algerian and Kabylian roots, to her father’s alcoholism and to the things they might have in common. Her artistic process creates a poetic field on the stage, where it becomes possible to decode an intimate and complex relationship, but also to ask how it was affected by the history of Algeria as a colony of France.
Yasmine Yahiatène, *1990, studied art at the School of Arts in Tournai, Belgium, where she specialised in video art and performance. She has produced short films and award-winning video-mapping projects, which involve the projection of moving images onto surfaces in public space. LA FRACTURE is her first piece of work for theatre.
With Yahiatène Yahiatene
Concept & Direction Yahiatène Yahiatene
Dramaturgy & Co-Concept Sarah-Lise Maufroy Salomon / Artistic Collaboration & Co-Concept Olivia Smets & Zoé Janssens / Video Samy Barras / Sound Design Jérémy David / Lighting Design Charlotte Ducousso / Production Atelier 210 / Coproduction Kaaitheatre, Buda & Little Big Horn asbl, la Coop asbl, Shelter prod / Production Management Leïla Di Gregorio (Little Big Horn asbl) / With the support of Federation Wallonie Bruxelles, Pianofabriek, Citylab, Darna asbl, Ville de Bruxelles, Centre Wallonie Bruxelles, Montevideo, centre d’art, Espace Senghor, Cie L’hiver nu, Le Sillon Lauze, taxshelter.be, ING, du tax-shelter du gouvernement federal belge / German Surtitles Katja Rollof, English Surtitles & Setup Emily Pollak, Operator David Maß