5.27 (Mon) 12:00 - Paid Member Pre-sale
6.3 (Mon) 12:00 - Official Sales Start
"Black Lights echoes a world and its traps". - LES ECHOS
"Mathilde Monnier and her accomplices have brilliantly succeeded in dispelling the literal imagery of aggression to show us movements under tension". - LE MONDE
“Nothing is more brutal than the trivialisation of gestures, words and aggressions against women”. - Mathilde Monnier
Inspired by the TV series H24 – 24 hours in a woman’s life (Arte, 2021) by directors Valérie Urrea and Nathalie Masduraud, which portrays everyday violence against women and its enduring mental and physical impact, choreographer Mathilde Monnier composes nine true stories from the films into another form of testimony. Borrowing the texts written by female authors worldwide, eight female dancers and actresses from different countries and generations come together to interpret the stories using their voices, bodies, and presence. This work carries on her inquiries into movement and writing, connecting the commonplace and their relationship to music and memory.
Having worked with Urrea, Monnier takes the directors’ advice from the introduction of the films: “Don’t hesitate to take hold of these words, they are strong, they are yours”. This piece thus transforms the once personal, traumatic and catastrophic encounters into an incisive, powerful and collective experience of togetherness. By orchestrating the materials with polyphonic movements and words, the former director of the Centre chorégraphique de Montpellier and the Centre national de la danse launches an appeal to, once again, hear and see what is invisible, forgotten and neglected by our society every day.
Mathilde Monnier, France
Mathilde Monnier came to dance late in life after working as a dancer in the companies of Viola Farber and François Verret. She has been interested in choreography since 1984, alternating between group creations and solo or duo creations. From one piece to the next, she thwarts expectations by presenting work that is constantly being renewed. Her artistic questioning is linked to issues of movement writing, in connection with broader questions such as the commonplace, the relationship to music and memory.
Her appointment as director of the Montpellier/Languedoc-Roussillon choreographic centre in 1994 marked the beginning of a period of openness to other artistic fields as well as a reflection on the management of an institutional space and its sharing.
Creations and deconstructions: her shows such as Pour Antigone, Déroutes, Les lieux de là, Surrogate Cities, Soapera, Publique, La Place du singe, 2008 Vallée, Tempo 76 have been performed on major stages and international festivals. She plays with the deconstruction of choreographic writing and the language of
dance.
Collaborations: she alternates the creation of projects that she signs alone with co-signature projects with different personalities from the art world: the musician Louis Sclavis, the singer Katerine, the writer Christine Angot, the composer
Heiner Goebbels, the filmmaker Claire Denis, the painter Dominique Figarella, the choreographer La Ribot.
Territories: Africa (creation of the first contemporary dance festival in Africa in Angola), creation of Pour Antigone, sponsorship of the CDC La Termitière in Ouagadougou.
Constructions and transformations: evolution of the tools CCN of Montpellier and CND, an EXERCE school.
Atypical projects: comics with Olislaeger, cinema with Claire Denis and the Larrieu brothers, project with Oliver Saillard on fashion, an edition with Jean-Luc Nancy, philosopher.
At the CCN of Montpellier, she created the first artists’ residencies (before the Ministry of Culture set up the system), the EXERCE training, the only (master’s level) training for choreography today, and major free public events such as
Potlatch (an invitation to 100 artists), and Skène. In parallel, she also works in a psychiatric hospital with autistic people and in workshops with sick people.
She has received several awards:
- Ministry of Culture prize at the Bagnolet competition in 1983
- Grand Prix SACD in 2002
- Knight of the Legion of Honour in 2013
From January to June 2019, she will direct the CND Centre national de la danse, which has been converted into an art centre for dance, reaffirming that dance is the place of indiscipline par excellence, by appropriating and inventing ever fruitful and new relationships with other artistic fields. In 2019, she created Please Please Please with La Ribot and Tiago Rodrigues. Her latest piece, created in 2021, is entitled RECORDS.
Mathilde Monnier & Otto Productions
Based on the series H24 by Valérie Urrea and Nathalie Masduraud, produced by Les Batelières Productions and Arte France
A production: Otto Productions
With the support of la Fondation d’entreprise Hermès
In co-production with:
Cie MM, Festival Montpellier Danse 2023, Le Quartz - Scène nationale de Brest, Le Parvis - Scène nationale Tarbes
Pyrénées, Théâtre Garonne, scène européenne, TPR–Centre neuchâtelois des arts vivants & ADN–Danse Neuchâtel, La
Chaux-de-Fonds
Hosted in residency by Montpellier Danse, at the Agora, cité
internationale de la danse, with the support of the BNP Paribas Foundation
Choreography & direction: Mathilde Monnier
With: Mathilde Monnier, Aïda Ben Hassine, Kaïsha Essiane, Lucia García Pulles, Mai-Júli Machado Nhapulo, Carolina Passos Sousa, Jone San Martin Astigarraga, Ophélie Ségala
Dramaturgy: Stéphane Bouquet
Scenography: Annie Tolleter with the atelier Martine Andrée and Paul Dubois
Light designer: Éric Wurtz
Sound designers: Olivier Renouf & Nicolas Houssin
Costume designer: Laurence Alquier
Technical & light director: Emmanuel Fornès
Sound manager: Nicolas Houssin
Production manager: Nicolas Roux / Margot Blondeau
Special Thanks to INSTITUT FRANÇAIS
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