Faith

FAITH makes you feel that belief is more than just a personal conviction. It is a source of trust, inspiration, and connection.

FAITH is the latest performance in The Human Odyssey series, following Fortune and Islands of Empathy. In this series, Club Guy & Roni brings together different cultures and worldviews, lets them clash, and reveals deep human connection through an explosion of live music and spectacular choreography.

Gnawa music, often associated with trance and lila rituals, guides the performers through a sensitive exploration of faith—towards a spiritual world we in the West may have drifted away from. What is still around us that we cannot see, but only feel?

The gathering of nine dancers and five musicians from the Netherlands and Morocco makes FAITH a powerful intercultural performance, in which a shared foundation is sought—one that is essential for a collective belief in the future.

One of the sources of inspiration for FAITH is the Moroccan heritage of Guy Weizman’s family, rooted in Casablanca, in the same neighborhood where Khalid Benghrib grew up. As contemporaries, they might have met, but life took a different course. Now they come together in FAITH.

Club Guy & Roni x Khalid Benghrib
The influence of contemporary dance choreographer Khalid Benghrib is felt in the approach to dance as a total experience. He trained under great dance masters such as Colette Milner, Lahcen Zinoun, Karin Weiner, and Christine Gérard. With that foundation, he founded Cie 2K_Far with Loren Palmer. Their choreography emerges from the idea that dance is a way to talk about life.

His work has previously been shown in the Netherlands at the Spring Performing Arts Festival and Dancing on the Edge. Theaterkrant described his earlier work inspired by Gnawa music and lila rituals as “virtuosic” and “a compelling tribute to his cultural roots.”

With unmatched precision and her signature sharp choreography, Roni Haver brings spiritual forms into connection within FAITH.

Together, Weizman, Haver, and Benghrib create a compelling mosaic of diverse physical, cultural, and spiritual approaches to belief.

The final piece of the mosaic lies with the audience.

The Human Odyssey
FAITH is part of The Human Odyssey, where we explore various human emotions (love, fear, happiness, empathy) from an intercultural perspective and in collaboration with an international dance company.

FAITH = Club Guy & Roni + HIIIT + Cie 2K_Far