100 Years of Bauhaus Autarcie (....)
Anne Nguyen, multiple "Battle of the Year" winner and world champion takes breakdance and hip-hop from the street to the stage. In Autarcie (....), she creates an enthralling study on the topic of "Individual and group", whereby she works exclusively with women – an unusual thing in this male-dominated genre. In futuristic costumes of the old master of constructivist fashion, Courrèges, she deconstructs hip-hop moves and puts them in relation to geometry and architecture. The result is a composed abstract piece between autarchy and understanding.
"Autarcie (....) is a game of strategy where four dancers engage in a frantic ritual, alternating between forward-facing dance moves and free digression. They transform their respective dance specialities of breakdance, popping and waacking into an abstract vocabulary, establishing their powerful individualities on stage and thrusting themselves into the space in pursuit of territory, alliances and hierarchy. The front of the stage is the rallying point where the dancers come together and devise a warrior dance directed at the audience. The inner workings of this restless "tribe" with all the power struggles that ensue and the search for possible points of harmony, thus unfold on stage, to the pulsating, unbridled rhythms of the percussive organic beat." Anne Nguyen
Choreography: Anne Nguyen
Dancers: Sonia Bel Hadj Brahim, Magali Duclos, Linda Hayford, Valentine Nagata-Ramos
Original Soundtrack (Composer, Percussionist): Sébastien Lété
Lightning Design: Ydir Acef
Costumes design: Courrèges
With the support of: l'ADAMI
Coproduktion: Théâtre Paul Eluard de Bezons; Théâtre Paul Eluard de Choisy-le-Roi; tanzhaus nrw; Centre chorégraphique national de Grenoble; Centre chorégraphique national de Rillieux-la-Pape; Centre de Danse du Galion d'Aulnay-sous-Bois; L'Avant-Scène Cognac
Autarcie (...) is funded by Aide à l'écriture granted by the Beaumarchais-SACD association.
The par Terre Dance Company is funded by Ministère de la Culture et de la Communication / DRAC Ile-de-France, Région Ile-de-France, Département du Val-de-Marne and Département de Seine-Saint-Denis.