Eszter Salamon
MOTHERS & DAUGHTERS
octoberoct 24 – 26
Thursday october 24
20h
Friday october 25
20h
Saturday october 26
18h
Concept and artistic direction Eszter Salamon. Choreography and performance Erzsébet Gyarmati and Eszter Salamon, Sulekha Ali Omar and Safia Abdi Haase, Christine Nypan and Drude Haga. Technical and lighting director Matteo Bambi. Original scenography by Eszter Salamon and Sylvie Garot. Production director Elodie Perrin. Production Elisabeth Carmen Gmeiner. Dramaturgical advice Bojana Cvejic. Acknowledgements Snelle Hall, Manuel Pelmus.
Production Studio ES ; Botschaft GBR - Alexandra Wellensiek
Coproduction la Ménagerie de verre; PACT Zollverein (Essen); Festival d'Automne à Paris
With the support of KHiO Oslo; Drac Île-de-France - Ministère de la Culture ; Fonds Transfabrik - Fonds franco-allemand pour le spectacle vivant ; Ville de Paris ; Fund for Performing Artists (FFUK)
Extracts from Composition As Explanation by Gertrude Stein, Uses of Erotic: The Erotic as Power by Audre Lorde, Playfulness, ‘World’-Travelling, and Loving Perception by María Lugones
With the support of the Norwegian Embassy
La Ménagerie de verre and the Festival d'Automne à Paris are co-producers and co-presenters of this show.
Workshop with mother-daughter pairs, a ‘school’ of touch
On Saturday 16 November from 2pm to 6pm, as part of her performance, Eszter Salamon will be holding a workshop with mother-daughter pairs (amateurs).
Free to attend, registration required for mother-daughter pairs.
Further information and registration
With the support of
In this new piece, the choreographer Eszter Salamon continues her Monuments series with an extension of her work M/OTHERS (2019). It explores her bond with her mother and the intimate construction of bodies. Drawing upon slowness, touch and filiation, the piece maps out an ethical and sensory framework of our collective intimacy.
Since 2014, Eszter Salamon has, in line with her desire to break free from the normative expressions imposed by cultural and societal codes, been developing a series of performances dealing with, in part, the invisibilization of bodies and the performance-based artistic practices of the past. With MOTHERS & DAUGHTERS, she pursues the work she began with her mother and shares it with two other mothers and daughters, leading to the development of a "school of touch". Freeing herself from a supposedly 'natural' feminine bond, Eszter Salamon imagines new forms of physical presences. In doing so, she maps out a poetic form linked to aging and transgenerational relationships. How can a choreographic approach to the mother-daughter relationship come into contact with the personal and collective imagination? By doing away with all forms of Freudian psychoanalytic hypothesis, she conjures up, in the present and in the feminine form, a new field of possibilities that puts the emphasis on the practice of care, solidarity and transmission of knowledge.