Cecilia Bengolea François Chaignaud Trajal Harrell Marlene Monteiro Freitas
(M)imosa or Twenty Looks or Paris is Burning at The Judson Church (M)
© (M)imosa or Twenty Looks or Paris is Burning at The Judson Church (M), Cecilia Bengolea, François Chaignaud, Trajal Harrell et Marlene Monteiro Freitas © Annavan Kooij ©
© (M)imosa or Twenty Looks or Paris is Burning at The Judson Church (M), Cecilia Bengolea, François Chaignaud, Trajal Harrell et Marlene Monteiro Freitas © Annavan Kooij ©
© (M)imosa or Twenty Looks or Paris is Burning at The Judson Church (M), Cecilia Bengolea, François Chaignaud, Trajal Harrell et Marlene Monteiro Freitas © Annavan Kooij ©
Conception and interpretation, Cecilia Bengolea, François Chaignaud, Trajal Harrell and Marlene Monteiro Freitas
Production Mandorle productions (Garance Roggero, Jeanne Lefèvre, Emma Forster)
Coproduction Le Quartz scène nationale de Brest ; Chaillot - Théâtre national de la Danse ; La Place de la Danse CDCN Toulouse Occitanie ; The Kitchen - New York ; Bomba Suicida - Lisbon ; FUSED French US Exchange in Dance
With the support of La Ménagerie de verre (Paris) ; Les Laboratoires d'Aubervilliers ; Drac Poitou-Charentes ; Institut français ; Lower Manhattan Cultural Council
Acknowledgements Sarah Michelson, DD Dorvillier, Ben Pryor, Lasseindra Ninja, Alex Mugler, Rumi Missabu, Pascal Queneau, Archie Burnett, Javier Madrid, Matthieu Bajolet, Donatien Veismann, Miguel Bengolea, Marianne Chargois, Joao Figueira, Rio Rutzinger, Emmanuelle Huynh, Jessica Trossman
Mandorle productions is subsidized by the ministère de la Culture - Drac Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes and the region Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes
François Chaignaud is an associate artist of Bonlieu Scène nationale Annecy, Chaillot - Théâtre national de la Danse, Maison de la danse and the Biennale de la danse de Lyon
With the support of Dance Reflections by Van Cleef & Arpels
The CND Centre national de la danse and the Festival d'Automne à Paris are co-producers of the revival of this show and present it in co-production with the Théâtre du fil de l'eau (Pantin)
With the support of the Embassy of the United States of America, France
Portrait Trajal Harrell is presented with the support of Dance Reflections by Van Cleef & Arpels
France Culture is a partner of Portrait Trajal Harrell
With the support of
A piece created in 2011 but which has gone on to reach cult status, (M)imosa brings together, at the invitation of Trajal Harrell, the choreographers Marlene Monteiro Freitas, François Chaignaud and Cecilia Bengolea. Figuring more than ever as a queermanifesto, in this piece voguing and post-modern dance become food for thought in a moment of shared ecstasy.
Part "M" in the Twenty Looks or Paris is Burning at The Judson Church series, (M)imosa takes the following postulate as its starting point: "What would have happened in 1963, in New York, if a figure from the Harlem voguing scene had gone all the way into Downtown in order to dance alongside the pioneers of postmodern dance?" Trajal Harrell, Marlene Monteiro Freitas, François Chaignaud and Cecilia Bengolea concoct a hybrid show which pools questions and answers in the form of a performance for four moving bodies. The result is rich in pop-inspired solos and spans half a century of choreographic claims and demands. What is a norm, a contemporary dance, or the act of surpassing something? (M)imosa then transforms into a fashion parade, a homage to Jenny Livingston's mythical documentary on the New York vogue scene, Paris is Burning, as well as on the research going on at the Judson Memorial Church and the tenants of postmodern dance. Gestures and sounds collide in a wildly inventive manner.
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