INHABIT #12 // Fabrice Mazliah
@Dominik Mentzos
September – December 2024
Fabrice Mazliah is an artist, choreographer and performer based in Frankfurt am Main and Basel. His choreographic work is characterized by a long-term research on embodied knowledge and how our inner landscapes – thought processes, perception and attention – translate into physical expression.
He is interested in understanding and renegotiating the relationship between our environment, its objects, atmospheres and our bodies. In his works, he regularly focuses on the role of the viewer and the richness of possible perspectives that can be embodied on stage. His plays provoke the clash of experiences and question binary perspectives with innovative narrative structures and poetic forms of expression. As part of the residency, he will develop the project "Embodied Dialogues: Exploring Inner Rhythms in a Sonic Space", an interdisciplinary performance that explores the complex interplay between the inner processes of the body, movement and the social mind.
Biography
Fabrice Mazliah studied dance at the National Academy in Athens and at the Rudra Béjart Atelier in Lausanne. He was a member of the Nederlands Dans Theater before joining Ballett Frankfurt in 1997 under the direction of William Forsythe, from which the Forsythe Company emerged in 2005, where Mazliah worked until 2015. His works as a choreographer have often been created in collaboration with other artists and have been shown internationally, including Künstler*innenhaus Mousonturm, Frankfurt am Main; Radialsystem, Berlin; Theater Basel, Basel; Pact Zollverein, Essen; ADC Theatre, Geneva; Kaaitheater, Brussels; Venice Architecture Biennale, Venice; Swiss Dance Days; DeSingel Theatre, Antwerp; Festival Automne en Normandie; Athens Festival, Athens; Forum Meyrin, Geneva; Maschinenhaus; Essen. Mazliah was part of the collective Mamaza together with May Zarhy and Ioannis Mandafounis. He gives research and improvisation based seminars and workshops for master programmes such as C.U.P., Giessen; La Manufacture , Lausanne; P.A.R.T.S Brussels.
