Tunisian Dance Tutorial With Mamou, 2022

The video shows charismatic showman Mamou teaching Tunisin dance moves in the spirit of

Åke Blomqvist’s dance school.

In an exploration of marriage and weddings as part of a larger exhibition titled Prestige, Dora

Dalila Cheffi puts focus on the notion of dancing as a culturally-significant celebratory

movement in the piece “Tunisian Dance Tutorial with Mamou”. Inspired by Åke Blomqvist’s

videos teaching disco dance moves, Cheffi — who is of Tunisian-Finnish origin—

interrogates the function of dance moves in Tunisian society as a tool that blurs the feminine

and masculine. Viewers are encouraged to mimic the movements depicted in the video.