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STUCK
In her first work as a choreographer, international whacking icon Mounia Nassangar explores the ability of dance to take over from speech when words are stuck.
ABOUT THE PERFORMANCE
Waacking, originally written “Whacking” has its roots in the 1970s in Los Angeles as a dance style of the LGBTQ disco scene. At a time when queer people were predominantly invisible and stigmatised, waacking offered them a platform for expression and visibility. The style developed from so-called punking, a reinterpretation of the pejorative term ‘punk’, and is characterised by dynamic, accentuated arm movements to the beat of the music.
In STUCK, five dancers approach waacking in their own individual way, with the urgency of dance and expression that resists all oppression. In STUCK, dance becomes a means of transforming inner and outer constraints into freedom and self-determination and transcending language.
ABOUT MOUNIA NASSANGAR
A leading figure in whacking in France and internationally, Mounia Nassangar is a choreographer, dancer, actress, model, DJ, event producer and director of her own dance company. Dancing since the age of 5, she went through popping, locking, new style, house dance, dancehall and street jazz before specializing in whacking. In 2018, Mounia was revealed to the general public thanks to Jean-Paul Gaultier’s touching Fashion Freak Show at the Folies Bergère and Gaspar Noé’s film Climax, which won an award at the Directors’ Fortnight at the 2018 Cannes Film Festival.
CREDITS
Choreography: Mounia Nassangar
Interpretation: Suzanne Degennaro, Serena Freira, Oumrata Konan, Nicole Kufeld, Carla Parcianello
Assistant choreographer: Sofia Staníc
Beatmaker: Maclarnaque
Mix: Mounia Nassangar aka Djasra Leggo
Set design, lights: Xavier Lescat
Costume & stylism: Lydie Tarragon, Mounia Nassangar
Sound designer: Lucie Béguin
Role-taker: Tess Selgi, Sofia Staníc
Repetitor: Rémi Bajrami aka Waabee
Production direction: Céline Gallet
Tour manager: Marion Roger
Production assistants: Jahlys Denis, Seynabou Diaw
A creation by Cie Nassangar
Deputy production: collectif FAIR-E / CCN de Rennes et de Bretagne. An association that receives grants from the Ministry of Culture. (Direction régionale des Affaires culturelles / Bretagne), the city of Rennes, the Regional of Brittany and Ille-et-Vilaine Departement (FR).
Coproduction: CCN-Ballet national de Marseille in the framework of Accueil studio / ministère de la Culture, La Villette - Paris, La Place - Paris
Support: Ville de Rennes in the framework of Appel à projet Accueil en résidence artistique.
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Presented by Malmö Dance Week, Iver & Dansstationen
Malmö Dance Week is a dance, music and art festival established 2018. Find more info at malmodanceweek.se
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Södergatan 15, SE-211 34 Malmö, Sverige, Södergatan 15B, SE-211 34 Malmö, Sverige, Malm, Sweden
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