2020
L'Homme rare
NADIA BEUGRÉ
Performing a swaying walk, which can be both lively and sinuous, and supple undulations and movements from the waist, the faces of the five dancers are not visible. The choreography that connects them and which is executed solely using their backs is inspired by dance techniques and styles that principally utilise the pelvis. With the insistent use of buttocks, these practices are seen as being more feminine, challenging or even chipping away at a strongly built and assimilated masculinity.
If the issue of gender has always featured in Nadia Beugré’s work, in L’Homme rare she tackles it more head-on by offering an inversion of the perception of “male / female attributes” and questioning the attention paid to bodies and the qualities attributed to their movements. Starting with a game that blurs our perceptions of gender, the choreographer places the spectator in the position of a voyeur, which the artist connects to the outcome of her research on our understanding of the body, notably black and male, in history and today. With references to a series of old photographs of slave markets in the Ivory Coast consulted by the artist, L’Homme rare also becomes a reflection on the history of Europeans’ gaze on black bodies and its persistence today.
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ARTISTIC DIRECTION AND CHOREOGRAPHY
Nadia Beugré [+]
PERFORMERS
Nadim Bahsoun
Tahi Vadel Guei
Daouda Keita [+]
Marius Moguiba
Lucas Nicot
MUSIC
Serge Gainsbourg, Lucas Nicot, Percussions d’Obilo
LIGHT
Touring dates
→ 23 October 2020, Première at Montpellier danse, Kiasma Theatre
26 → 27 November 2020, Alkantara festival, Dona Maria II, Lisbon
3 → 4 June 2021, Points Communs, Cergy-Pontoise
16 → 19 June 2021, Théâtre de la Ville Espace Cardin / Festival d'Automne à Paris
24 → 26 October 2021, Spielart Munich
29 → 30 October 2021, BIT Teater Garajsen Bergen, Meteor Festival
5 → 6 November 2021, RIMI/IMIR Stavanger
25 → 26 November 2021, Vooruit, Gent
22 → 26 May 2022, Kunstenfestivaldesarts Brussels
29 May → 1 June 2022, Festival Transamériques Montreal
25 → 27 July 2022, Impulstanz, Odeon Théâtre, Vienna
4 → 5 October 2022, Afrovibes, Theatre Frascati, Amsterdam
→ 14 October 2022, Afrovibes, Utrecht
28 → 29 October 2022, Mousonturm, Frankfurt
6 → 7 December 2022, Théâtre de Nîmes
7 → 8 February 2023, Antigel, Geneva
10 → 11 February 2023, Kaserne, Basel
16 → 17 February 2023, Dampfzentrale, Bern
1→ 3 September 2023, Zürcher Spektakel, Zurich
→ 6 September 2023, Oriente-Occidente Festival, Rovereto
4 → 6 October 2023, La Briqueterie, CDCN du Val-de-Marne / Festival d’Automne à Paris
→ 19 January 2024, Pôle Sud, Strasbourg
→ 23 January 2024, Théâtre de Chatillon, as part of the Festival d’Automne à Paris
→ 4 June 2024, CCN Caen
12 →13 June 2024, Lift festival, South Bank Centre, London
→ 15 February 2025, URBANG FESTIVAL, Cologne
