Holland Festival: Prophétique (on est déjà né.es)

Hairdressers by day, dance floor divas by night. They live both out in the open and underground, flowing from one reality to the other and inventing their own dances which, mixing voguing and coupé décalé, really make the nights of Abidjan. Their stories and daily routines are Beugré’s source of inspiration for this piece. The cast is a mix of non-professional performers, local dancers and two performers from Europe.

Beugré has been exploring gender and identity in her work for a long time. She infuses her pieces with energy and vulnerability and likes to take the audience out of its comfort zone, for instance by adopting perspectives that defy expectations. She interrogates assignations and roles in the family, in society and in history. She is particularly interested in people who she calls ‘the stranded’: those from the margins of society who are rejected or ignored.

Beugré: ‘What interests me in 'Les folles’, as people call them, ignoring the power of madness, is precisely their audacity in thwarting the roles of a society that imposes these on each of its members, from childhood to death.’

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