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Flora Détraz
Between medieval images, ancient poems, short ditties and grotesque paintings, Muyte Maker brings to the stage a celebration of disobedient and irrational bodies.
The performance is a sensual, fun and energetic experience, a tribute to the power of transformation and joy. Femininity is perceived here as a potential in constant metamorphosis, while joy is understood as a physical and existential statement, as desire and creativity, a physical distortion, a contradiction, a state that transcends morality.
Flora Détraz, a young French choreographer among the most talented on the contemporary scene, from several years exploring the relationship between voice and movement by devising shows with a whimsical polyphony.
In Muyte Maker four female figures dance and perform pieces from the medieval and Renaissance repertoire. Funny, scabrous, satirical episodes compose a representation of the role of women in society marked from archaic and patriarchal views.
The performers, mythological beings in perpetual metamorphosis, sing profusely, laugh polyphonically, dance blindly and chat cacophonically, expressing all the complexity of their bodies, free from any constraints.
An ancient Flemish expression, Muyte Maker means "mutiny." Is this then what to we will witness?
CONCEPT
Flora Détraz
WITH
Mathilde Bonicel, Inês Campos, Flora Détraz, Agnès Potié
SCENES AND COSTUMES
Camille Lacroix
LIGHTS
Arthur Gueydan
SOUND
Guillaume Vesin (replaced from Claire Mahieux)
ARTISTIC COLLABORATOR
Anaïs Dumaine
PLI Production
Co-producers CCN de Caen en Normandie, Alban Richard Direction (Fr), Ramdam-un centre d'art (Fr), Relais culturel des Pays de Falaise (Fr), Pact-Zollverein (De), La place de la danse CDCN (Fr), Le réseau des Petites Scènes Ouvertes (Fr), Alkantara (Pt), as part of the European network DNA-departures and arrivals.
Studios Espaço Alkantara (Pt), O espaço do tempo (Pt), Les Eclat(s) chorégraphiques (Fr), l'Avant-Scène (Fr).
The project received financial support from the Normandy Region and DRAC Normandie.
Duration: 50 minutes
Flora Détraz is a French-Portuguese choreographer and performer, trained in classical dance and studies in literature. She attended the Centre Chorégraphique National Lyon, with Maguy Marin, and completed her choreographic studies at PEPCC, Forum Dança to Lisbon. During her journey, she meets artists such as Marlene Monteiro Freitas, Vera Mantero, Lia Rodrigues, Meredith Monk, Loïc Tousé, Meg Stuart, Jonathan Burroxs, who influence her style. In 2013, she began to devising her own choreographies in which she questions the relationship between voice and movement: Peuplements(2013), Gesächt (2014), Tutuguri (2016) and Muyte Maker (2018), _Glotti_s (2020). As a performer, she works with Marlene Monteiro Freitas in the performance Bacante - Preludio para uma Purga.
Mourad Merzouki
Ballet Preljocaj
Alexandros Stavropoulos