Leila Tayeb is a PhD Candidate in Performance Studies at Northwestern University. Her in-progress dissertation is an ethnography of music and daily life in Libya and its diaspora between 2011 and 2017.
Bouchra Ouizguen’s Corbeaux: A Horde of Crows, Disparate and Together
In Corbeaux, women in black with white cloths tied on their heads call out sharply and swing their heads, evoking the ritual trance practices of the Marrakesh region. The work can be read, writes performance scholar Leila Tayeb, in a way that allows us both to learn something about the specificity of the group’s origins and grapple with questions that exceed national or ethnic frameworks.