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This year, it takes 18-21 June 2009 in Marrakech, but also to Tahanaoute, Tamesloht, AIT Ourir and Aghmat.

According to Khaled Tamer, artistic director of the Festival, this version "fragmented" event "is a way of thinking to the villages." "In the Morocco, we have many festivals that take place in cities, Awaln'Art would be our gift to animation in the mid-ruralÉ", he said at the press briefing held on June 15, 2009 in Casablanca.

"Words" or "our word" É is what means the word "Awaln'art" in Berber. For the organisers, the Festival is a tribute to the oral heritage of the Morocco and its popular arts.

Organizers promise, strong and full of surprises in this edition moments. The program begins in beauty with Djama Buren circus. A masterful installation circus and extravagance signed by sculptor Daniel Buren and served by much playful staged.

Show "The Essenciel" of the dream 2 company, is an invitation to a voyage in weightlessness. A couple of acrobats, a suspended House and sensations to cut the souffleÉ it is proposed to the original show. The nomadic Salé Theatre will bring his touch to the event with the show "Belarej, the people's Parade" which brings together dancers, acrobats, clowns, jugglers, fire breathers, musicians and marionnettistesÉ an entire universe celebrating the spirit and the essence of the popular theatre.

The Cie Afrik'art alarm clock from Mali will deliver a deep artistic "war". Between armed djembés and coras "rebels" and "Soldiers of the atmosphere", the battle is not ready to stop. Then comes the Tower of giant puppets of the French company planet Pas Net to invest public space, followed by mopeds and italo-belge company "The Motasses" équilibristes. This is not to mention the magic of the unpublished moments offered by circles of storytellers and musical creations of jugglers. All a program many rich and varied that can satisfy tastes the most various.

Believe their words, the organizers are not only mark a temporary success. If the Festival starts to get a place on the national and international scene, even timidly, the concern to include it in the continuity remains, for these initiators, major.

"Behind this Festival, there is a real concern for training of artists, but also organizers." "We do not want an event whose effect stops after the four days of its recalculates", said Khalid Tamer. To achieve its ambitious goals, the artistic director announced that it has already implemented a training centre to folk art and street arts. On the side of organizational, artistic directors of the different "scenes" in the villages are also entitled to a kind of continuous training in important events in France and the Canada. Proud of the growing reputation of Awaln 'Art that is passed a budget of 25,000 euros for the first edition to 100,000 euros, Tamer announced at the same time a possible participation of the Cirque du Soleil at the 4th edition of Awaln' art. "This is not yet safe, but we have a promising proposal." "We need a well structured in order to see this great circus occur in proposal", says Manager insisting on increasing quality of performances and artists proposed by the young event.

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Since its inception, Awaln'Art explores the traditional forms of street performance and their synergistic meeting with contemporary creation. To the Morocco where the halqa was a transmission of knowledge and sharing of dreams, the Festival tries to him return heritage vocation. Awaln'art thus brings to public spaces their role as spaces of Exchange and discovery and reinstalls the public at the heart of the creations and vice versa.