Ça Déménage!

Ça Déménage !

by Nabil Ouelhadj & Compagnie Racines Carrées

Dance
Lille, France

Date: Monday 14 September 2026

Time: 19:30

Duration: 40′

Location: Central Square

Free Entrance

Under construction, like a life time spent building and deconstructing! A “moving out” like choreography, where the
enjoyment of play, gives away to the unexpected. Full box and full of boxes for an atypical walk into a multiple architectural
memory. « An allegory of universality » both diverse and unique as it emerged from nuances in music, poetry and movement.
Research, experimentation of hip-hop dance on and around a trampoline that becomes a breathe and limitation for dance
movements, supported by the musicality of gestures. An instable dance variation, “moving” and lively on canvas, giving the
audience an atypical vision of a choreographic expression. Bodies thrown in the air as if put into orbit, a shifting stage design and
an organizational hazard.
“Ça déménage” (“It’s moving out”) is a dynamic, spontaneous and poetic urban dance that liberates itself from stereotypical
aesthetic expectations. An engaged piece which transcends so that Art becomes a window for all.

CONTRIBUTORS

Choreography and staging: Nabil Ouelhadj

Performers: Nabil Ouelhadj, Valentin Loval, Andy Andrianasolo, Abderrahim Ouabou

Costumes: Nabil Ouelhadj – Chrystel Zingiro

Musics: Arthur H, René Aubry, Georges Brassens, Enzo Bosso et musiques additionnelles

Production and co-production:
With the support of the mécénat de la Caisse des Dépôts
Co-production of Centre Chorégraphique National de Créteil et du Val-de-Marne / Compagnie Käfig direction Mourad Merzouki through l’Accueil Studio / Ministère de la Culture
Co-production of Centre Chorégraphique National Roubaix Hauts-de-France – Sylvain Groud / Ministère de la Culture

Support:
Le Phénix, scène nationale de Valenciennes
Le Colisée, Roubaix
Association Porte-Mine, Lens
Ville de Bondues

Nabil Ouelhadj & Compagnie Racines Carrées
Phénix associate artist – National scene of Valenciennes through a long-term residency on the territory, his
numerous collaborations with Kader Attou, Farid Berki, Morad Merzouki, José Montalvo or the Brussels Philharmonic, allowed him to develop his unique style filled with poetry, commitment, humor and emotions.
Nabil Ouelhadj, artistic director and choreographer of Compagnie Racines Carrées shares his vision of the
choreographic creation, between the street arts’ dynamism and the requirements of contemporary writing. Very active on various
creations and projects, he exports his knowledge worldwide combining dance, video, theatre and live music. From Yemen to
Denmark and Germany to Cambodia.
Master’s degree holder on “Motricité, Expression, Langage et Santé” (« Motor Skills, Expression Language and
Health »), his choreographic journey is now well-rounded thanks to the multiple courses he took at an international level, which
give him the label and role of an expert on “artistic and educational” questions in hip-hop dance.
Created in 2010, and counting over 1200 performances worldwide Compagnie Racines Carrées, resonates with Nabil
Ouelhadj’s unconventional professional journey, from urban dance to contemporary, and traditional Chinese circus to audiovisual
design.
It is under the influences of all those energies that he pursues his artistic and creative explorations, pushing the boundaries
of urban arts and contemporary aesthetics, breaking them apart and creating his own universe with it.
The company offers educational and artistic trainings as well as producing live performances that could be
presented on national scenes like the inauguration of the Arab World Institute in Hauts de France, with several thousands of
spectators, to more intimate performances in libraries, prisons or small theaters in rural areas.
With 10 original pieces in its repertoire the company tours/collaborates/exchanges around the world through its various
artistic projects.