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 post-show talk with Bilal El Had and Piny.
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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
Artistic Direction and Choreography Bilal El Had
Performance Bilal El Had
Music Production Reda Senhaji (Cheb Runner)
Dramaturgical Consultancy Daniel Blanga Gubbay
Assistance Théo Livesey
Sound Design Milan Van Doren
Lighting Design Ivan Casco
Set Design Théo Demans
Costumes Cyril Bourez and Adam Halleux
Video Editing Nadav Direktor
Outside Eye Maud Blandel
Production Management Rosine Bey
Executive Production Moussem Nomadic Arts Centre and Les Halles de Schaerbeek
Co-production Charleroi Danse, DE SINGEL, Kaaitheater, Kunstenwerkplaats KWP, Les Brigittines, workspacebrussels, L’Arsenic – Centre d’art scénique contemporain, La Fondation Royaumont – Centre international pour les artistes de la musique et de la danse, La Briqueterie CDCN Val-de-Marne, Le Maillon Théâtre de Strasbourg – Scène européenne and Points Communs Nouvelle scène nationale de Cergy-Pontoise et du Val d’Oise
With the Support of Fédération Wallonie-Bruxelles, Vlaamse Overheid and Vlaamse Gemeenschapscommissie
Residency Support Charleroi Danse, DE SINGEL, Kaaitheater, Kunstenwerkplaats KWP, workspacebrussels and Ultima Vez
Special Thanks Pôle international de production et de diffusion Ailleurs & Ici and Youness Khoukhou
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