Dates / Schedules
Friday, november 20 2026 9:30pm
Saturday and sunday, november 21 and 22 2026 5:00pm
Dance
In Ch’ttahh (“dancer”), Bilal El Had returns to the first dance form he ever encountered: Moroccan chaabi, a popular style of music and dance performed at weddings, street celebrations, and gatherings at home.
Ch’ttahh combines his personal experience of dance with the rhythms, songs, and ancient symbols of chaabi. It explores social gestures shaped by a long history of men challenging gender norms through dance, poetry, and music.
Between tribute and innovation, humour and conflict, Ch’ttahh captures the energy of the present while looking carefully and attentively at a shared past. Through the powerful expressiveness of chaabi, it presents dance as a way of crossing or breaking social rules, while preserving cultural memory and imagining possible futures.
In English and Arabic, with Portuguese and English surtitles.
On 21 November, there will be a conversation after the performance.
The Centro Cultural de Belém Foundation reserves the right to collect, store and use recordings of image, sound and voice, for the purposes of dissemination and for preserving the memory of its cultural and artistic activities, as well as its spaces. Should you require any further information, please contact us at the following email address: privacidade@ccb.pt
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Bilal El Had (1991, he/him) is a Moroccan dancer and performer based in Brussels. A graduate of P.A.R.T.S., he has collaborated as a performer with Anne Teresa De Keersmaeker, Salva Sanchis, Radouan Mriziga, Laurent Chétouane, and Maud Blandel, among others. He is currently developing his own choreographic work, focusing on the relationship between music and dance as a space where traditional forms, cultural memory, and collective imagination intersect and transform.
Ages
+6
Data sheet
Concept, Choreography and Performance Bilal El Had
Music Production Cheb Runner
Dramaturgy Daniel Blanga Gubbay
Lighting Design Ivan Cascon
Costumes Cyril Bourez
Set Design Théo Demans
Production Moussem Nomadic Arts Centre & Les Halles de Schaerbeek
Coproduction Arsenic, Kaaitheater, Kunstenwerkplaats, Workspacebrussels, deSingel, Les Brigittines, Charleroi Danse, Points communs / Ailleurs & Ici, Royaumont, La Briqueterie CDCN Val-de-Marne, Le Maillon
Support Flemish authority, Flemish Community Commission (VGC)
Photo: © Njaheut Valler
Discounts
DISCOUNTS are only valid for CCB production and/or co-production shows and for tickets with a price above €12, with the exception of CCB cardholders, the discount is applied to values above €8.
50 % people with specific needs and free for accompanying person
50% for Arts and culture professionals
50% for unemployed
30% for CCB Card’s holders (individual, Senior, Youth and Family)
20% for people over 65 / for under 30s / students / for groups of more than 20 people
Tickets at €5 for Artistic Schools
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