Rhétorique du mouvement dans le spectacle ElHadhra
Rhetoric of Movement in the ElHadhra Show

Author(s): Olfa Bouassida Souli
Subject(s): Theatre, Dance, Performing Arts, Fine Arts / Performing Arts
Published by: Editura Politehnium
Keywords: Hadhra; ritual; perception; movement; rhetoric;
Summary/Abstract: In Tunisia, as in the Maghreb, the ancient performing arts consist mainly of instrumental vocal music, theater, sung poetry and other forms of oral and bodily expression including music, the art of speech and storytelling, and Sufi dances. These artistic forms cover many cultural expressions that constitute the intangible cultural heritage of each country. Among these sacred ancestral forms, we cite La Hadhra, which is a show based mainly on Sufi songs accompanied by dance movements. This show, originally sacred, continues to be adapted by several Tunisian artists in order to modernize it and bring it to the taste of the public. This modernization occurs mainly through the addition of new scenic, aesthetic and musical elements which leads us to witness the passage of the Hadhra from ritual to spectacular.

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