Compagnie par Terre / Yonder Woman
Charenton (close to Paris), France
9 - 11 Feb '12
Yonder Woman
2010 – 25 min
Experiment for two superhero women
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.
Background Information
Anne Nguyen founded the par Terre Dance Company in 2005. Her choreographic style is conceptual, and stands at the crossroads between hip-hop movements and contemporary choreography. Having studied science, the dancer and choreographer uses mathematical and geometrical principles to transform the centrifugal force of breakdance into linear patterns. Her long time practice of martial arts (capoeira, Brazilian jiu-jitsu…) inspires her to research into bodily contact. The construction of her choreographies originates from particular conceptions of the scenic space. Movement is deconstructed, and its fragments, used as an abstract symbolic language, are worked into the choreographic frames.
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- Théâtre des 2 Rives
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- Anne Nguyen
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- Charenton (close to Paris)
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