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The event consists of two segments:
Live performance / Chez Michou (The Mystery of Blue), Studio 2 MDT 26-27.04.2024 at 21.30h.
Public presentation of the choreographic object / SPOMENAR (Queer archive of feeling), entrance hall MDT.
The work will be available for viewing during the entire duration of the festival.
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Chez Michou (The Mystery of Blue)
Mobilizing the format and legacy of the cabaret genre, the project Chez Michou by Žak Branko Valenta entangles the image of the French singer and drag artist Michou with a poetic reflection on dis-orientation. The bodies on stage activate a queer spatiality that blurs the border between the inner and the outside world, between abstraction and the realities of fiction. Navigating imagination into the muddles of identity, the choreography unfolds a cartography of dislocation saturated with the vibrant textures of objects, gestures and words. The collapse of heteronormative structures is radicalized through the potentiality of flesh to push against fixed coordinates and perform the subject being somehow out of place. As an invitation to get lost, Chez Michou celebrates the disappearing horizon and retraces the affective territories of Otherness.
Authorship and choreography: Žak Branko Valenta
Co-creators and performers: Toni Flego, Maria Arkouli, Ekin Tunçeli, Hannah Krebs, Žak Branko Valenta
Dramaturgy: Andrej Mirčev
Visual identity: Nikoleta Mirčev
Music: Dušan Maksimovski
Lights: Olle Axen
Duration: 50 min
Performance space: STUDIO 2 MDT
Full information: https://www.uniarts.se/.../makor-mixa-xxl-deluxe-the.../
Ticket reservation: https://www.nortic.se/ticket/event/56512
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ THANK YOU ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
Special thanks to my mentor and to the head of MA Choreography at SKH Jennifer Lacey.
Many thanks to my supervisors Dinis Machado, Andrej Mircev, Siegmar Zacharias.
Many thanks to Karin Hauptmann, producer MA Choreography SKH, M Ali Dönmez, tehnical support, SKH.
Thanks for the support: Chrysa Parkinson (director of the dance department SKH), Marie Fahlin (assistant MA Choreography SKH), Tove Salmgren (head of the MA NPP, SKH).
And the biggest thanks to all my colleagues with whom I shared the last two fantastic years at MA Choreography as well as the MDT scene trough two wekends of festival: Linda Wardal, Ekin Tunçeli, Gergő D. Farkas, Hannah Krebs, Ira Wuolle, Matilda Bilberg, Vilma Mankonen ❤️
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Event Venue & Nearby Stays
MDT Moderna Dansteatern, Slupskjulsvägen 34, SE-111 49 Stockholm, Sverige,Stockholm, Sweden