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Director: Laurence Yadi, Nicolas Cantillon , Light Designer: Ursula Degen , Music by: Maurice Louca, Sir Richard Bishop , Dancers: Aline Lopes, Margaux Monetti, Ka- rima El Amrani. About the Company Since the creation of Compagnie 7273 (2003), Laurence Yadi and Nico- las Cantillon have developed a dance style that stimulate the body to unravel continuously and endlessly. Their research is inspired by the Maqâm Arabic music system. Each maqâm describes a “tonal-spatial factor” or a set of musical notes and the relationship among them. It allows the musician to play in-between the notes and gives him the chance to express himself. Named Multi styles FuittFuitt by the cho- reographers themselves, the transfer of this technique into the body enables the movements to weave into each other in a wavy, spiraled and hypnotic dance. Throughout their career, Laurence Yadi and Nicolas Cantillon creat- ed about 20 pieces: from silent ones to dance-concerts, from duets to group pieces, all of which they toured internationally (Africa, Asia, United States, Europe, Middle East, North Africa and Russia). The choreographers regularly give sessions of workshops in Switzerland and abroad. They are also invited to teach the Multi styles Fuittfuitt to young dancers in professional training. They have won several awards including the prestigious Swiss Dance Award for Dance and Choreog- raphy and the Foundation Liechti for the Arts Prize. Three is the number of dancers you will discover on stage; three wom- en who began this story in 2016, in the first version of the play. During the creative phase, they passed like shooting stars, draped in shimmering costumes. Four years later, they deliver a refined version of extreme intensity in which they appear to confront an enemy haunt- ing the emptiness of the stage and on which they convey the strengths and weaknesses that drive them. Three is not an army, yet these three women carry within them a whole arsenal that enshrouds us and rallies us to their cause. The exercise is fascinating with its radical form and pure gesture. With this piece the choreographers aimed to present the portrait of three women for whom dance is a weapon of resistance and a means of emancipation. For the soundtrack they asked Egyptian composer Maurice Louca to adapt his famous album Salute the Parrot (Nawa Re- cordings, 2014) whose powerful sound, in turns hypnotic and almost pounding, inspired this creation. You can watch the performance through Citerne platform www.citerne.live Jonathan Imhof 3. - Streaming version 32 minutes Compagnie 7273 -Switzerland A. M. Qattan Foundation 8:00 pm Saturday 10 July Live Streaming performances About the Performance