Following a performance at the São Luiz Municipal Theatre and in partnership with the Alkantara Festival, we present 55 — 55 minutes of an “architectural” show built around the number five and the measurements of a dancer’s body. Radouan Mriziga’s début piece, 55 is a perfect demonstration of the way in which this Marrakesh-born dancer and choreographer, a graduate of P.A.R.T.s., has transformed the hybrid influences of his dance into a personal language, somewhere between sobriety and sensuality, concept and physicality, structure and sentiment.

Mriziga uses his own body as a tool to create a pattern on the floor. A pattern whose form inevitably appears out of a relationship between his anatomy and the given space. But here, the rationalist “less is more” approach is not incompatible with the aesthetic and emotional delight derived from the ornamental.