Sama

[2006]

Video Art, mini DV [4:3]. Colour and Black&White. 14:28 min

Videography and realization: Ludivine Allegue

Dance & choreography: Shahrokh Moshkin Ghalam (Théâtre National de la Comédie Française, Paris)

Original music: Imen Tnani and Juhamahat (aka Kar-taj)

What is Sama?

Building on previous reflection on perception, Sama projects the viewer into the eye of the dance. The viewer becomes the dancer and his/her experience becomes a sama.

Exhibitions

2016 – Museo CAV La Neomudéjar, Madrid, Spain. Nov 17-20

2007 –  AFTAB, Soirée courts-métrages, 1 de diciembre de 2007, Paris, FR (sama Video art installation)

2007 – HERMES´ EAR IN NITRA Nitra National Gallery, Eslovaquia, Abril de 2007 (sama video art  screening)

2007 – Festival Ici et Demain, Mairie de Paris, FR Marzo de 2007. (Live version of video art piece: Sama)

2006 – Avignon/New York Film Festival (sama, Official Festival Selection). New York, USA. 15-19 de Noviembre de 2006.

Publications

“International perspectives: Practice as Research in France” (2009) (with C. Miereanu) In Allegue, Ludivine, Jones, Simon, Kershaw, Baz and Piccini, Angela (eds) (2009) Practice-as-Research: In Performance and Screen, London: Palgrave Macmillan, ISBN 978-0-230-22001-0.

Allegue, L. “entre deux êtres” in Paroles d’Artistes (2005), edited by Mohamed Zinelabidine, Tunis: Institut Supérieur de Musique de Tunis, (Tunisia), Collection livresque « l’Impensé du temps » (Unesco, Graphic Eye, Université française et Université tunisienne).

Conferences

2008Azzuharah” 18th Conference on Culture and New Strategies for Development in XXI Century; 4th Tunisia International Conference on Cultural Development Politics. Beit al Hikma, Carthage, Tunisia, 5-6 december 2008.

2007 “Screening sama: how might we generate knowledge beyond words and cultures?” at the Harmonious society, civil society and the media International symposium, 20-21 October 2007, Beijing, China. Organized by the Chinese Association for Communication (CAC) and the International Communication Association (ICA).