2022 PoLy-Mirrors/ a re-performance of feminine diagonals
PoLy-Mirrors concert/ jazzclub version
Lucie Piot, Naïma Mazić, Felix Hauptmann & Evi Filippou
21st of November, 20:30 at Loft Cologne
Credits
Concept & Choreography Naïma Mazic
Musical Composition Elias Stemeseder
Dance Yuika Hashimoto & Lucie Piot
Synthesizer, Keys Felix Hauptmann
Percussion,Drums, Vibraphone und Mirrors Evi Filippou
Stage Design Lola Drubigny
Costumes Maël Blau
Dramaturgy Sara Ostertag
Dramaturgical Assistance Fergus Johnson
Assistant Christine Kern
Mentoring Alain Franco, Robyn Schulkowsky & Marcela Giesche
Production more2rhythm/ Naïma Mazic
A co-production of Naïma Mazic / n ï m company and imagetanz / brut Wien. With the kind support of the Department of Culture of the City of Vienna and the Federal Ministry for Art, Culture, Public Service and Sport., ACTOUT, ÖKF Berlin.
Residencies & Research at Lake Studios Berlin, ImPulsTanz, DOCK11 Eden***** Berlin, D.ID Dance Identity, workspace Brussels, Le Regard du Cygne, La Ménagerie de Verre.
{A glissando into a} {Feminine diagonal} {State of being}
Look at me.
Don’t look at me.
Look diagonally to the top right corner.
Tilt your head.
Imagine a diagonal line between your right shoulder and your left hip.
Create the largest possible distance between them.
Stop.
Change the position of your eyes.
Show me your neck.
In PoLy-Mirrors /a re-performance of feminine diagonals, choreographer Naïma Mazic brought slanted looks, tilted heads, tangent necks, twisted bodies into movement. Two dancers and two jazz musicians communicate through a shared rhythmic vernacular, disrupting straight lines, looks, bodies.
Dancers Yuika Hashimoto and Lucie Piot, Evi Filippou on percussion/vibraphone and Felix Kaufmann on synthesizer and keys perform a polyrhythmic glissando into a diagonal feminine state of being, questioning an imposition of diagonal lines on the female body, leading from a projection, eroticization and fetishization of a desired strangeness, a mystified seductiveness into a ritual of submission. The rhythm is based on the menstruation cycle, the choreographic material derives from paintings, sculptures and images representing an ideal of the feminine- from the figure of the virgin Mary, European renaissance Art until today. 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.
Together, n ï m company is facing and playing with the “dance of contempt” of patriarchal masculinity by reclaiming and re-signifying gestures of feminine diagonals.
brut Vienna
coproduction
Austrian Premiere from 13th-15th of January, 20:00 at brut nordwest Vienna
14th of January: Talk of the Artists after the Show
https://brut-wien.at/en/Programme/Calendar/Programm-2022/01/Naima-Mazic-n-i-m-company
Press Review: https://www.diepresse.com/6085739/poly-mirrors-feminine-jamsession-mit-tanz-performance
Video Installation “PoLy-Mirrors” by Naïma Mazic & Alaa Alkurdi at brut
Film installation PoLy-Mirrors
Concept & Direction Alaa Alkurdi & Naïma Mazic
Choreography Naïma Mazic
Cinematography Alaa Alkurdi
Performer Naïma Mazic
Composition and piano Elias Stemeseder
M-Claviton (Naima by John Coltrane) Georg Vogel Costume Maël Blau
Make Up / Hair / Assistance Christine Kern Production more2rhythm
Supported by „von der Bühne zum Video“ of the Federal Ministry for Art, Culture, Public Service and Sport, ÖKF Paris, brut Wien
Filming locations PAF Performing Arts Forum, Jazz & Musicclub Porgy & Bess Vienna
pictures by Alaa Alkurdi
picture by Hanna Naske
