Breakthrough & Rafael Smadja

Guest 25/26

The Breakthrough Festival invites the French choreographer Rafael Smadja for this year's first full-length stage production. For We met here, Rafael Smadja has a team at his side that is coming together in this constellation for the first time. We met here is being developed in close collaboration with the dancers and the artistic team.

Rafael Smadja
After a wealth of experience as a performer and dancer in various dance and theater companies (Jann GalLois, Lene Boel, Yann Marussich, Tali Serruya, Cedric Gagneur, Stephane Fortin and many more), Rafael has founded two of his own ensembles: CieTenseï (FR) in 2015 and Cie champloO (Biel, CH) with Branca Scheidegger in 2019. Rafael Smadja works as a dancer and choreographer in both companies. In his numerous collaborations, he has developed a particular fondness for objects, installations, live music and texts. Since 2009, Rafael Smadja has organized and programmed the Step By Straight festival from 2009 to 2014 and Les Hybrides Hiphopées from 2016 to the present.

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