The project
I dance with my words is an artistic and documentary initiative conceived as a space for resilience, freedom, and healing for LGBTQIA+ people in exile.
The project takes the form of a documentary film, shaped by writing and movement-based workshops conducted with homosexual and transgender individuals refugees, asylum seekers, or those in precarious situations living in the Greater Paris area.
Writing becomes a vehicle for recognition, the body a language of emancipation, and art a gentle weapon against invisibility.
The goal is to transform narratives of pain into narratives of strength, portraying each individual through a lens of beauty, courage, and dignity.
The documentary will capture this transformation through a poetic, aesthetic, and deeply human lens amplifying voices too often unheard and creating a collective work that bears witness to a powerful artistic, political, and social commitment.
Selected excerpts from the film will also be integrated into a new contemporary and multidisciplinary live performance work created by choreographer Radhouane El Meddeb in collaboration with Anissa Daoud.
By supporting this documentary film, the Francis Kurkdjian Endowment Fund helps give voice and presence to LGBTQIA+ people in exile, transforming pain into poetic power and affirming an art that is activist, compassionate, and deeply human.
Trained at the Institut Supérieur d'Art Dramatique in Tunis, Radhouane El Meddeb was an actor before turning to dance. His first creation was a solo, Pour en finir avec MOI, a kind of intimate introspection. He founded the Compagnie de SOI in 2006. He has created numerous works and presented them on stage and at festivals in France and abroad. From 2011 to 2017, he was an associate artist at the CENTQUATRE in Paris. In November 2023, Radhouane El Meddeb was appointed Chevalier de l'Ordre des Arts et des Lettres.