In a world driven by human ambition and technology, the mountain, desert and sea remain untamed spaces beyond control. Magec / the Desert explores vast, dry landscapes, revealing their wisdom and rethinking humanity’s relationship with nature. From the Sahara to the Thar and the Central Asian steppes, deserts emerge as spaces of reflection where human smallness is revealed, and myth, literature and cultural knowledge take shape.

Radouan Mriziga’s choreography views the desert not as a void but as a geography of wisdom, demanding humility and reciprocity instead of dominance. The work investigates the desert’s rhythms, ecologies, and knowledge systems, anchored by symbols like the sundial—measuring time through light, shadow and land. Drawing on crafts, music and embodied practices of desert cultures, it explores harmony and interconnectedness, showing how the desert teaches abundance through its quiet vastness.

Mriziga’s collaborative practice interweaves rhythm, text, movement, and sound into a polyphony of perspectives. Like the layered textures of the desert, the performance resists singularity, offering a sensory and intellectual complexity. Magec / the Desert invites audiences to pause and engage with nature’s intelligence, opening space for reflection and returning to the elemental.