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a piece by Naïma Mazic with music by Elias Stemeseder

Premiere: January 2022 @ brut nordwest, Vienna

Concept & Choreography: Naïma Mazic
Composition & Musical director: Elias Stemeseder
Performance/ Dance: Margaux Marielle-Tréhoüart and Amie Jammeh
Cembalo, Synthesizer, Fender Rhodes: Elias Stemeseder
Vibraphone, Percussion, Mirrors: Evi Filippou

PoLy-Mirrors is opening up slanted looks, tilted heads, tangent necks, twisted bodies. Two dancers and two (jazz-) musicians communicate through a shared rhythmic vernacular, allowing to disrupt straightness, leaning into queerness. They perform a polyrhythmic glissando into a diagonal feminine state of being, asking: (How) do diagonals – created between and by body parts – perform femininity?

Together with Elias Stemeseder, Evi Filippou, Margaux Marielle-Tréhoüart and Amie Jammeh, choreographer Naïma Mazic wants to reclaim and re-signify the gestures of feminine diagonals. To embody them, to own and transform them, by giving them the chance to perform through any()body and to re-orient our lines of sight across identity.

In PoLy-Mirrors, the visual artist Lola Drubigny is creating a space for reflections of gender and a place for the mirroring of dance and music. Within this room, one subject is fixed, the other takes off, orbiting in circles and emerging into queerness. PoLy-Mirrors questions an imposition of diagonal lines on the female body throughout art history until today, that might represent the projection, eroticization and fetishization of a desired strangeness, a mystified seductiveness into a ritual of submission.

PoLy-Mirrors at DOCK 11 EDEN*****

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OPEN Rehearsal- 19th of January- VIMEO LIVESTREAM

12:00-14:00 & 15:00-18:00

feel free to drop in and out as you like

after the stream, at 18.15h, we want to invite you to meet the artists via ZOOM

New Workshop Trailer:

New Release Nov. 2020 :

Musikvideo of TOYTOY – choreography and concept by Naïma Mazic, performed by Franklyn Slunch Kakyire

by Lola Drubigbny — n ï m by Lola Drubigny

Our latest works

infectious, Hamburg K3 Tanzplan/ Kampnagel

and

THE CHANGING SAME at Kultursommer Vienna, Summer 2020

Trailer

Naïma choreographed the new Music Video of singer and musician Lia Pale. Out now:

PREMIERE OF PoLy-FleXion and more at Living Away Fest New York 20th-26th of July 2020

23rd of July at 3 PM NY time- 9 PM Austria live performance

PoLy-Flexion online 23rd-26th of July

FILM will be presented July 2020

What would a diagonal poem be?

Audio written and recorded by Naïma Mazic:

PoLy-Flection

by Naïma Mazic (Concept, Choreography) and Daniel Rodier (Music, Editing)

n ï m company performed in New York City March 2020

with movement research at Judson Church NY

https://www.instagram.com/p/B-h5-XuBfzn/?utm_source=ig_web_button_share_sheet

THE CHANGING SAME (Amiri Baraka)

A conversation of dancers and jazz musicians based on a shared polyrhythmical language. “Music is the making of the music.” (Fred Moten)

Naïma Mazic (dance/choreography), Jungle (dance), Gabriella Burdsall (dance), Vinicius Gomes (guitar/music), Lukas Akintaya (percussion/music), William Ruiz-Morales (dramaturgical advice), Research: Haggai Cohen-Milo, Margaux Marielle-Tréhoüart & the team of infectious

THE NEW TRAILER OF—-> infectious

©n ï m company/ Anja Beutler/ infectious

https://vimeo.com/359888038

What does it take for dance and jazz music to be folding in love again, today? 3 dancers and 3 jazz musicians attempt to get closer by sharing the same polyrhythmic language.

House dancers, contemporary dancers and jazz music infect each other and anybody who is watching through the immediate corporal tension of the pulsating uneven rhythms, whose embodiment gives breath to the groove which spreads from all sides, at every angle, to every degree. Dancers realize an unfamiliar improvisational independency and musicians learn how to see, touch and hear dance.

infectious is how you join the conversation that jazz has always been speaking, the cypher which has always meant everything and nothing.

(written by Naïma Mazic and Is Ali)

A polyrhythmical study by Naïma Mazic

Now also on the wonderful website of Pascal Michon RHUTHMOS

Maria Grand & Naïma Mazic

Duo Performance at Spectrum in Brooklyn

further information

newest creation

infectious

Concept & Choreography: Naïma Mazic
Dancers: Margaux Marielle-Tréhoüart, Cat Paz Jimenez & Franklyn Kakyire
Choreographic Assistance: Margaux Marielle-Tréhoüart
Musical Director: Haggai Cohen-Milo
Music & Composition: Haggai Cohen-Milo & Mateo Lugo
Musicians: Haggai Cohen-Milo (bass), Mateo Lugo (guitar) & Mareike Wiening (drums)
Stage/Costumes: Anton von Bredow, Assistance by Lili Avar
Mentoring: Anne Kersting, Matthias Quabbe, Alain Franco & Robyn Schulkowsky
Outside Eye / Inside Ear: Anaïs Mazic, Keren Kraizer and Vincent Jonsson
produced by: K3 Tanzplan Hamburg & n ï m company /more2rhythm
supported by: BKA Austria, ÖKF Berlin, Hamburgische Kulturstiftung

Short film: 377

Kolkatta, India from 2015 – remade

Naïma in New York 2018