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L'Homme Rare

Nadia Beugré (CI/FR), Studios Kabako (CG)
Wed 5 Oct ’22 and Thu 6 Oct ’22
Swaying your pelvis, men in high heels. A provocative choreography centred on the pelvis
Wed 5 Oct ’22
and
Thu 6 Oct ’22

Is your masculinity in jeopardy by swaying your butt, hips or pelvis? A provocative choreography centred on the pelvis and the obsession of the dancers with their gender and their body.

In L'Homme Rare, choreographer Nadia Beugré focuses on gender. Amused, she wonders why men often feel uncomfortable to make dance movements that are seen as 'typically feminine'. Is your masculinity in jeopardy by swaying your butt, hips or pelvis? Who or what determines our concepts of male and female and how do these concepts influence our way of looking at things?

In L'Homme Rare, Beugré brings together five high-heeled dancers, scantily clad and sometimes naked, who are trained in different dance styles like the sensual South American dances such as Passinho and Carioca funk. With the dancers, Nadia Beugré creates a provocative choreography centred on the pelvis and the obsession of the dancers with their gender and their body.  

Duration: 60 min

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About Nadia Beugré

Nadia Beugré (Ivory Coast, 1981) received her traditional dance training at the Dante Theater. In 1998 she became a member of Béatrice Kombé's dance ensemble TchéTché in Ivory Coast, touring Africa, Europe and North America. In 2007 Nadia Beugré took choreography training and dance lessons with Germaine Acogny in Senegal. In 2009 she joined Ex.e.r.ce., Mathilde Monnier's training program for talented emerging choreographers at the Center Chorégraphique National de Montpellier.

Nadia Beugré made a series of dance productions, in 2009 she created Un Espace Vide: Moi and in 2012 Quartier Libres. Her choreography Legacy premiered in 2015 at the La Bâtie festival in Geneva and was also shown at the Festival d'Automne in Paris. In 2017 she choreographed Tapis Rouge and in 2018 she made Roukasskass Club (on tour). In 2020, Nadia Beugré choreographed the dance music work Atem for Darmstad Staatstheater. Beugré has collaborated with choreographers such as Seydou Boro (Burkina Faso), Alain Buffard (France), Dorothée Munyaneza (France / Rwanda), Faustin Linyekula (Congo DRC) and Bernardo Montet (France). In 2017 she started an artist-in-residence program at De Vooruit in Ghent. Since 2021 she is an associate artist at the Briqueterie CDCN du Val de Marne in Vitry.

choreography Nadia Beugré, ‘external eye’ Faustin Linyekula dance Lucas Nicot, Vadel Guei, Daouda Keita, Nadim Bahsoun, Marius Moguiba light Anthony Merlaud music Serge Gainsbourg, Lucas Nicot, Persussions d’Obila production Virginie Dupray, Studios Kabako

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