Autarcie (….) at Théâtre Paul Eluard de Choisy-le-Roi (94) – Fr. 23 May

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For her sixth production, Anne Nguyen, winner of the 2013 SACD New Choreography Talent prize, continues her deconstruction of hip hop body language. Autarcie (….) is a game of strategy, alternating between forward-facing dance moves and free digression, in which two hip hop dance specialities, breakdance and Popping, are brought into contact. For 50 minutes, four dancers, using very different performance spaces and techniques, engage in a frantic ritual. The front of stage is therallying point where the four powerful individualities come together and devise a warrior dance directed at the audience. They are drawn towards the empty space beyond this common point of harmony, and each dancer thrusts herself into that space, in pursuit of territory, alliances and hierarchy. The inner workings of this restless “tribe” with all the power struggles that ensue, thus unfold on stage, to the pulsating, unbridled rhythms of the percussive organic beat. Anne Nguyen transforms movement by setting geometrical constraints, using desynchronization and experimenting with physical contact. In her work, the relationship to the observer and the ‘other’ is fundamental; it determines the way that movement is built in space.

Choreographer: Anne Nguyen

Dancers: Sonia Bel Hadj Brahim, Magali Duclos, Linda Hayford, Valentine Nagata-Ramos

Original soundtrack (Composer and Percussionist):Sébastien Lété

Lighting design: Ydir Acef

Assistant choreographer: AragoRn Boulanger

Artistic adviser: Jim Krummenacker

Costumes designed by: Courrèges

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