Dangereuses
What bodies and which dances are necessary for the present times? What does it mean to be dangerous? Or ‘dangereuses – implying a plural feminine entity?
IIn this choreographic work, six performers understand the risk of intimacy, gentleness and pleasure as a subversive practice and cross it with elements of self-defense, protest, training and preparation for combat. Seeing softness, vulnerability, sensuality, strength and brutality not as opposites, but rather interested in where they meet and how it happens. Taking inspiration from Elsa Dorlin’s writings on violence, and calling in Uses of the Erotics (Lorde) and Pleasure Activism (maree brown) as methodology, the work searches for ways in which we can prepare our bodies for resistance as much as for pleasure and connection.
Choreography, Performance: Julia B. Laperrière
Co-Choreography, Performance: Rachell Bo Clark, Lisanne Goodhue, Arantxa Martinez, Elvan Tekin
Sound Design: Amund Ulvestad
Stage Design: Yoav Admoni
Costume: Cordelia Lange
Outside Eye: Siegmar Zacharias
Light design: Vito Walter
Production: Paula Häfele
Production assitance: Lucille Belland, Raphaël Bas
With thanks to: Friederike Heine, Saphir Belkheir, Pauline Stöhr, Pauline Lavogez, Luara Raio, Anat Bosak, Micaela Kühn, Ghyslaine Gau, Isabelle Schad, Astrid Rostaing
A production by Julia B. Laperrière in collaboration with cohue and LAB-L plateforme chorégraphique. Funded by the Haupstadtkulturfonds and co-produced by the Fonds Transfabrik – Franco-German fund for live performance. With the support of the Norwegian Arts Council, ICI—Centre chorégraphique national Montpellier Occitanie – Direction Christian Rizzo (with the support of DRAC Occitanie), la Briqueterie CDCN du Val-de-Marne – studio residency, CCNO – direction Maud Le Pladec, Actoral -Montévidéo, Centre d’Art, Tanzfabrik Berlin and Ballhaus Ost.