Watch Choreographer Silas Farley’s moving dance piece set to Aaron Copland’s Fanfare for The Common Man.
Fanfare for the Common Man
The Washington Ballet
Dance, Shorts
FEÛ - Fouad Boussouf
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Subscribe NowFire and femininity collide in this electrifying performance by choreographer Fouad Boussouf, captured with rare intimacy by director Luc Riolon.
Inspired by Boussouf's Moroccan roots and the elemental force of fire, nine female dancers unleash a genre-blending ritual of movement that is earthy, urgent, and unrelenting. Shot in a 360-degree space, the camera draws viewers into the circle as bodies ignite, collapse, and rise again in relentless motion. Each dancer channels fire's many forms: eruption, ember, and smoke, fusing hip-hop, contemporary, and North African styles into a hypnotic, communal trance.
Driven by François Caffenne's pulsing score, this primal meditation on strength, memory, and transformation blazes with cyclical energy. What remains is not just a performance but a living force that is defiant and fiercely alive.
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