© Stef Stessel

Mohamed Toukabri

Every Body Knows What Tomorrow Brings And We All Know What Happened Yesterday
VIERNULVIER & CAMPO
  • Wed 29.10
    20:30 - 22:00
    CAMPO Nieuwpoort, Gent
    Nieuwpoort 31/35
  • Thu 30.10
    20:30 - 22:00
    CAMPO Nieuwpoort, Gent
    Nieuwpoort 31/35

From hip-hop to contemporary dance, street to scene

With his latest solo, Everybody Knows What Tomorrow Brings And We All Know What Happened Yesterday, Mohamed Toukabri steps into uncharted terrain, where movement becomes both excavation and rebellion. Known for his ability to navigate between worlds—be it street and stage, hip hop and postmodernism, personal and political—Toukabri now turns his sharp choreographic eye to the very architecture of dance itself.

In this performance, he dismantles hierarchies embedded in the body, questioning who gets to move how, and why. The piece pulses with the urgency of decolonising the imagination, carving out a space where dance traditions do not compete but converse, where forms long dismissed as ‘low’ hold their own against the canonised. Footwork flows seamlessly into weight shifts; virtuosity and vulnerability coalesce. This is not fusio —it’s friction, coexistence, a rewriting of the rules in real-time.

The title is both a provocation and a reminder: the weight of history moves with us, and tomorrow’s dance is shaped by today’s choices. What responsibility do we carry in what we pass on, in what we erase or uphold? This work does not offer easy answers but insists that we, as witnesses, are implicated in the act of reimagining.

What makes this moment in Toukabri’s journey so arresting is his bold refusal to settle. Having honed his craft within institutions and on the streets, he now claims a choreographic voice that is unmistakably his own: rooted yet unbound, deeply personal yet speaking to a collective reckoning. This is more than a solo—it’s an invitation to step beyond the known, into a dance where all bodies, all histories, belong.

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Creation and performance: Mohamed Toukabri - Dramaturgy: Eva Blaute - Costume: Magali Grégoir Text Essia Jaibi - Scenography & light design: Stef Stessel Light Matthieu Vergez - Sound design: DEBO  Collective - External eye: Radouan Mriziga - Coproduction: Needcompany, VIERNULVIER, Charleroi Danse centre chorégraphique de Wallonie – Bruxelles, STUK, Théâtre Les Tanneurs, Concertgebouw Brugge, Beursschouwburg, Perpodium - Executive production: Caravan Production - Residencies: corso, Le Gymnase CDCN, Les Bancs Publics - Festival Les Rencontres à l'échelle , Studio THOR, Needcompany, Théâtre Les Tanneurs - With the support of: The Flemish Authorities and the Flemish Community Commission and taxshelter of Belgische Federale Overheid by Cronos Invest

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