On stage, mother and son reunite after years of separation to look at each other and, through dance, build a space where they feel at home. A home is a place, but it might be a feeling too – as fragile as strong enough to replicate anywhere. In the theatre room, in an unfamiliar city, in the past and in the future.

She always dreamed of being a dancer, he made dance his profession. The duet of the Tunisian choreographer Mohamed Tukabri, based in Belgium, and his mother Latifa is a crossing of the lines of their physical bodies, dreams, searches, and lives. They show the audience their reunion, which does not need to be acted out as it happens in a natural, delicate and intimate way.

The piece is a beautiful and tender dance story about the bond between mother and son, but also about the importance of home when you are near and when you are far.It is about striving to be in a safe place, under the roof of love and shared care with your closest ones. There, you are genuine, natural, and honest. And there, you can be anything – worthy, accepted, appreciated, vulnerable, weak, powerless.

Home is the strength (of) human frailty, value and fiction, windows and walls, and however we know or fantasize about it, we all return there, regardless of race, religion, social class, or sexual orientation, no matter anything.

Originally from Tunisia, Mohamed Toukabri has been dancing since the age of 12, starting with breakdancing. He became part of the Ballet Theater "Sybel" under the direction of Sihem Belkhoja (2002-2008). At the age of 16, Toukabri joined the International Dance Academy in Paris. In 2007, he returned to Tunisia to study at the Mediterranean Center for Contemporary Dance. Between 2006 and 2008, he worked with choreographer Imed Jemaa in five productions.

In 2008, Mohamed began training at P.A.R.T.S, a dance school in Brussels led by Anne Teresa De Keersmaeker. At the same time, he participated in the performance BABEL (2010) by Sidi Larbi Cherkaoui and Damien Jalet from the Belgian Eastman Company. From 2013 to 2018, Mohamed was part of Needcompany, an international company in Brussels founded by Jan Lauwers and Grace Ellen Barkey. He also took part in the remake of the repertoire production ZEITUNG (2012) by Anne Teresa De Keersmaeker, as well as in the performance SACRE PRINTEMPS! (2014) by Aïcha M’Barek and Hafiz Dhaou from the Tunisian dance company Chatha.

Mohamed Toukabri's recent work includes a remake of the opera SHELL SHOCK, A REQUIEM OF WAR (2018) with choreographer Sidi Larbi Cherkaoui, composer Nicholas Lens, and writer Nick Cave at the Paris Philharmonic, marking the 100th anniversary of World War I. He also participated in Larbi’s more recent works, such as NOMAD (2018), as well as in the opera ALCESTE (2019) with choreography for the Bavarian State Opera in Munich.

The premiere of his first solo work, THE UPSIDE DOWN MAN, was presented at the Me, Myself & I festival in Hellerau, Dresden, in May 2018. The performance was later staged in Belgium, the United Kingdom, France, Germany, Switzerland, Sweden, and Austria. It was selected for Het Theaterfestival in the #NewYoung category in September 2019. THE STRENGTH (of) WEAKNESS is his latest work – a duet with his mother.