AJJIT
Music, Performance
Polyrhythmic Moroccan music on live electronic beats. In AJJIT, Khadija El Kharraz Alami demonstrates how music, rhythm, and movement can inspire a different kind of storytelling.
Khadija El Kharraz Alami
Khadija El Kharraz Alami graduated from the Utrecht School of the Arts in 2014. Her work immediately earned her accolades; she won awards from, among others, the ITS Festival and STIP Theatre Productions (Youth Theatre Award). In 2018, she won both the KBC Young Theatre Prize and the audience prize at the Theater aan Zee festival in Ostend for Nu ben ik Medea. Let me tell you something you already know by Merel Severs, directed by Khadija, also won awards during the 2020 Amsterdam Fringe Festival.
Khadija works from a personal source; she draws inspiration from events, relationships and people from her own life. In her work, she portrays the human being in search of identity, and who succeeds in this quest only to fail. In her creative processes, she always begins with a fascination, which is explored during the rehearsal period. The outcome of this continues to transform from day to day.
Starting from a love of written language combined with physical play, Khadija seeks to develop a dialogue between thinking and doing. In addition to writing and creating her own material, she often draws on the repertoire that forms an important part of her development as a creator. Mythology is a key source in this.
In 2021, Khadija’s performative research performance Re-claiming Space can be seen in the Netherlands and Belgium, an exploration of womanhood and feminine power. For this, Khadija invites a different guest onto the stage every evening whom she has never met before. In 2022, The Waves premiered, based on the novel of the same name by Virginia Woolf.
Performances by and with Khadija El Kharraz Alami