Latifa always dreamt of being a dancer, Mohamed made it his profession. After being separated for a long time Latifa and Mohamed, a son and mother, reunite on stage. It is a meeting of two worlds, two bodies, two minds.

The Power (of) The Fragile is a collection of images, reflections on what the relation between mother and son can look like, on what it means to be home and to go away. It is a performance about movement, of bodies and people, about weight and what it means to carry weight, about being together and being apart. It is a tender portrait of a close relationship, and a pamphlet for our right to go wherever we want to go.

About the maker
Brussels-based choreographer and dancer Mohamed Toukabri was born in Tunis and began dancing at the age of 12, starting with breakdance. In 2008, he joined P.A.R.T.S. dance school in Brussels. He collaborated with Sidi Larbi Cherkaoui and Damien Jalet, was a member of Needcompany (2013-2018), and performed in the remake of the repertory piece Zeitung by Anne Teresa De Keersmaeker (2012) and Sacre? Printemps! by Aicha M’Barak and Hafiz Dhaou (2014).

After his first self-devised work, The Upside Down Man, Mohamed Toukabri presents The Power (of) The Fragile. In its he places a young and energetic body – Toukabri himself – against an old, fragile specimen: his mother.