Born in Syria 1981, Mithkal Alzghair is a choreographer and dancer.
Born in Syria 1981, Mithkal Alzghair is a choreographer and dancer.
After studying at the Higher Institute of Dramatic Arts in Damascus (specializing in classical and modern dance), he did the “ex.er.ce” master’s programmer in choreography at the Centre chorégraphique national de Montpellier from 2011 to 2013.
He created Displacement in March 2016. This show was awarded first prize at the Concours Danse Élargie 2016 organized by the Théâtre de la Ville, Paris, and the Musée de la Danse / CCN de Rennes et de Bretagne. In autumn 2016, he created the company HEK-MA. Transaction, his creation in the form of installation-performance was created in June 2017 in the Centre national de la danse, pantin, France. In 2019, We are not going back was created in Montpellier Dance Festival. In 2022, Clamors, a solo dance performance was created in Kampnagel, Hamburg. He has performed for various choreographers. He was also an actor in the piece “Kliniken” of the stage director Julie Duclos. In 2021 he was named Knight of the Order of Arts and Letters.
Hes searches are focusing on the body as concept of humanity, the body as a vision on the world, as a space of councious of life, of history, of future, of harmony, and of peace ; the body as a space of poetry, of memory and imagination. He pay particular attention to cases of violation of this space by authoritarianism, laws and political systems in power, when the body’s dignity, its freedom and its right to live, is taken away. He discern the body as an energy capable of creation and rebirth, the body as an energy which can rise up, fight and resist. He is sensitive to everything that strips the body of its concept of humanity. Hes work with the body is like a space of the senses, of possibilities and contradictions, as a space of questioning, as an instrument of a revolution for peace.