Yonder Woman

Voluntarily exposing themselves to the public gaze, two women enter their assigned space of experimentation. Willing to show a heroic image to the audience, they comply with the performance requirements they assume them to be cherishing. Wearing suit jackets and headspin hats, they imagine a virtual labyrinth filled with obstacles and targets, along which they make sporadic progress, in a game of overtakings, contacts and tensions. Immersed in the oppressive atmosphere of expectation, the dancers’ bodies reveal and transform the inner tensions related to the logics of contemporary living. Yonder: at an indicated distance.

“This way of dissociating limbs to assemble them again upside down is like danced Picasso. […] a new architecture, filgree as well as joyful, mischievous as well as surgical. Another breakdance is possible!” Thomas Hahn – Danser – 02 / 2011

Choreography: Anne Nguyen

Dancers: Anne Nguyen, Valentine Nagata-Ramos

Artistic Counsel: Vincent Rivard

Music (original creation): Benjamin Magnin

Lighting designer: Ydir Acef

Costume designer: Catherine Petit

With the support of: la Direction régionale des affaires culturelles d'Ile de France - Ministère de la culture et de la communication; la Communauté de Communes Charenton-le-Pont – Saint Maurice.

Coproduction: Parc de la Villette (WIP Villette); Centre de Danse du Galion d’Aulnay-sous-Bois; Maison Folie Wazemmes / Ville de Lille; Danse à tous les Etages !; MJC Pacé; CCN de Créteil et du Val-de-Marne / Cie Käfig - dans le cadre de l’accueil studio.

With the partnership of: Centre national de la danse – research residency; Centre de développement chorégraphique du Val-de-Marne; Les Journées Danse Dense; Culturesfrance.

The par Terre Dance Company is funded by l'aide à la compagnie de la DRAC Ile-de-France et l'aide au fonctionnement du Conseil Général du Val-de-Marne.