MEDIATHEK

Born in Tunis in 1990, Mohamed Toukabri began dancing at age 13, starting with Break Dance with his friends at the train station in downtown Tunis. Later he joined the Sybel Ballet Theatre led by Syhéme Belkhodja, the director of the festival La Rencontre Chorégraphique de Carthage. At age 16, Mohamed trained in Paris at the International Academy of Dance directed by Nicole Chirpaz, where his story with contemporary dance started. In 2007 he returned to Tunisia to follow his first professional training at the Mediterranean Centre for Contemporary Dance. There he met guest choreographers such as Ballet Preljocaj, Gilles Jobin or Abou Lagraa. In 2008 he joined P.A.R.T.S., and in 2010 he took part in »Babel« by Sidi Larbi Cherkaoui and Damien Jalet. [Quelle: Abendzettel]