Rachid Ouramdane

Des témoins ordinaires


“What caught my attention wasn’t the actual historical facts, but each person’s attitude to their own past, and the way that History affects the formation of each person’s identity.”


For his new production, Des témoins ordinaires, Rachid Ouramdane filmed members of associations for survivors of torture, amassing expressions, accounts, gestures, images that document the ways in which these people deal with the memory of the horrors inflicted on them. Having “excavated” this often painful material, he puts it on stage in his choreography.