2011
Quartiers libres
NADIA BEUGRÉ
Are there spaces where we cannot go? Places that we do not have the right to explore? And if we penetrate them, what would we become?
Nadia Beugre’s Quartiers libres (meaning ‘free rein’) creates a space to explore those forbidden places in which we choose to wander. In a fight with a world willing to bury her, piles of empty plastic bottles and Nadia Beugré's body start to amalgamate, merge, and melt. By blurring the lines between the performer and audience, Nadia Beugré transcends the stage with athletic choreography, tangled in endless microphone cable, and surrounded by mountains of waste. Becoming trapped within herself and her surroundings, she struggles to reach out to the humanity around her.
Taking over the stage and the audience with breathless, raw energy, Quartiers libres is an arresting solo performance, startling with its immediacy and unnerving imagery.
ARTISTIC DIRECTION, CHOREOGRAPHY AND PERFORMANCE
DRAMATURGY
Hyacinthe Hennae
LIGHT AND GENERAL MANAGEMENT
LIGHT
Laurent Bourgeois et Erik Houllier
SOUND DESIGN « ALARMES »
Mathieu Grenier
TOURING DATES
→ 15 June 2012, Maison Folie Wazemmes, Lille, Latitudes Contemporaines
→ 13-14 September 2012, Dance Center of Columbia College, Michigan
→ September 2012, New York Lives Art, New York
→ 4-5 October 2012, John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts, Washington DC
→ 19-20 October2012, Yerba Buena Art Centre, San Francisco
→ 10-13 October 2012, Walker Art Centre, Minneapolis
→ 15-16 June 2013, HAU, Hebbel Theater, Berlin
→ 18 June 2013, L'Etre-lieu, Arras
→ April 2015, Miami-Dade County Auditorium, Miami
→ 7 May 2015, Le Toboggan, Décines
→ 14-17 October 2015, Le Tarmac, Paris, as part of the Festival d'Automne à Paris
→ 12 June 2016, Festival Uzès danse, Uzès
→ 14 October 2017, Divadlo Archa, Prague, en collaboration Institut français de Prague, 4+4 in Motion
→ 19 novembre 2017, Treize Arche, Brive-La Gaillarde
→ 20 January 2018, Festival Fari Foni Waati, Bamako
→ 1 July 2018, Rencontres de Carthages, Tunis
→ 10-11 October 2018, Darmstadt Staatstheater
→ 29-30 October 2018, Onassis Cultural Centre, Athènes
→ 2 March 2019, DamsLab, Bologne
→ 13 December 2019, Mercat de les Flors, Barcelona, as part of Africa Moment
→ 8-9 October 2021, Fabrik, Potsdam
→ 10-11 September 2021, Short Theatre, Roma
→ 23 September 2021, La Briqueterie, CDCN du Val-de-Marne
→ 18 & 19 March 2022, Transform festival, Leeds
→ 20 October 2022, Città delle 100 Scale, Potenza
→ 4 & 6 August 2023, Impulstanz, Vienne
→ 19 October 2024, Tres Continentes Festival , Agüimes, Canaries Islands
→ 24-26 October 2024, New York Lives Arts, dans le cadre de Crossing the Lines, New York
→ 1-2 November 2024, Walker Art Center, Minneapolis
