Tunisian dancer and choreographer Selma Ouissi and her brother Sofiane are well known in the Arab world’s contemporary dance scene. Their work is known for its powerful visuals and precise exploration of movement. At the 2025 Avignon Festival, they presented "Laaroussa Quartet – a Free Body that Invents its Own Gesture", a tribute to the ancient craft of the women potters of Sejnane, a village in northwest Tunisia.
The stage was simple. Four sheets of music on a small black bench. Poetic verses. That’s how "Laaroussa Quartet" opened at La FabricA in Avignon. It marked the start of a journey back to ancestral knowledge and tradition.
