Mahraganat revolt, the sound that shakes Egypt

Rooted in the streets of Cairo, Just one Tile explores Islam Elarabi's identity, resistance and cultural heritage through his lived experience and bodily memory.
It’s an opportunity for him to assert his origins and his determination to dance whatever the cost – “I come from a place where a single slab can become a stage” – by revisiting the energy and pride inherent in mahraganat dance, a visceral expression of Egyptian street culture. – by revisiting the energy and pride inherent in mahraganat dance, a visceral expression of Egyptian street culture. Islam Elarabi built his own artistic vocabulary in neighborhood...

Open-air DJ-set on the roof terrace of Mucem J4!
A Franco-Egyptian DJ based in Marseilles, Chabana has been mixing between France and Egypt since the early 2000s. His set traces the evolution of mahraganat, from pioneering tracks to the most popular hits, worthy of the craziest weddings in Alexandria’s Max district or Cairo’s Salam City suburbs.

Pleine Lune brings together dancers and choreographers Toto (Mohamed Mahmud Mohamed Ibrahim) and Islam Elarabi for the first time, around a shared passion: mahraganat.
A choreographic and musical aesthetic rejected by the establishment but wildly popular, transcended on stage by the dancers and choreographers who interweave their energy, expressive power and emotions to invent “an essential language of expression – organic, free and beautiful in its raw violence and truth”. Here, the alliance of mahraganat, martial arts and contemporary dance plunges the performers into a kind of bare-knuckle combat, where each competes with the other in...