Blending urban dance with contemporary dance, and with that intense yet ever-joyful physicality that is his hallmark, the Tunisian choreographer and dancer Hamdi Dridi invites us to tap into the power of the soul that transforms his home and his country into a nomadic stage: a universe in which to dance and to make those around him dance, drawing the audience into a shared journey.

In Soul(s) Power, Hamdi Dridi takes turns as DJ and sound narrator, using the vinyl records he has collected on his travels; as a sound manipulator, in the way he mixes, transforms and pushes the tracks he chooses to their limits; a craftsman of sound diffusion, using mobile sources and microphones that distort or amplify sound, linking it to movement; a dancer who listens to the resonance of the groove and then transcends it.
Accompanied on stage by his team, Dridi engages our perceptions and actions, as well as those of his ancestors, to draw us into a living experience that inextricably intertwines music and dance, the foundational elements of our relationships and our being together. A ritual renewed by our presence, our gazes, our listening and our moving bodies, swept up in a sense of sharing that lies at the very heart of his artistic endeavour.