2007/2008 Season
Compagnie Thor
D’Orient
This new dance project was born out of choreographer Thierry Smits’ fascination with northern Africa and the Middle East. Smits created the work after a series of trips from Morocco to Syria, through Tunisia, Egypt and Lebanon. In three scenes, eight male dancers tell us of the roles, relations and codes of a traditional patriarchal society, but also of a modern and urbanized world. Compagnie Thor, a Belgian-based dance ensemble, makes its U.S. debut in Miami with this captivating work that is flooded with light, filled with sensuality and generosity, and which pays homage to the Muslim-Arab world and the Middle East.