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STUCK
Mounia Nassangar (Collectif FAIR-E)

Staatstheater Wiesbaden – Warburg

Wed. 13.11. I 7.30 pm, followed by Meet the Artists Duration: 40 min.
Language: No Language
Tickets: 12€ - 19€ / reduced 6€ - 9,5€

While voguing has its roots in New York, waacking emerged on the West coast of the USA, in Los Angeles, as the dance of the LGBTQ disco scene in the 70s – in a period when queer people were largely unseen and stigmatised.

An extension of punking (a positive use of the derogatory term “punk”), this expressive style was typified by accentuated arm movements to the beat of the music. With STUCK, international waacking icon Mounia Nassangar creates her first choreographic work, transposing the movement language of waacking into a personal and idiosyncratic contemporary stage work. Here she searches for answers to physical and mental blocks. Dance becomes a tool that transforms internal and external pressures into freedom and self-determination.

In STUCK, five female dancers each take their own highly individual approaches to waacking. While their bodies and histories are different, they all share one powerful experience: the immediacy of dance and expression that is capable of resisting all forms of oppression.

Choreography: Mounia Nassangar
Dance: Suzanne Degennaro, Serena Freira, Oumrata Konan, Nicole Kufeld, Carla Parcianello
Choreographic assistance: Sofia Staníc
Beatmaker: Mac L'Arnaque Set design,
lighting: Xavier Lescat
Costume: Lydie Tarragon
 
Created by Cie Nassangar Production: collectif FAIR-E / CCN de Rennes et de Bretagne, an association subsidised by the Ministère de la Culture (Direction régionale des Affaires culturelles / Bretagne), the Ville de Rennes, the Région Bretagne and the Département d'Ille-et-Vilaine. Coproduction: CCN-Ballet national de Marseille as part of the Accueil studio / Ministère de la Culture, La Villette - Paris Support: City of Rennes as part of the artistic residency call for projects.

Foto 1&3: Le-Kabuki
Foto 2: Mounia Nassangar