In mainstream culture, men who indulge in dances involving their hips and pelvis are considered feminine, as if moving these parts of the body were an insult or a threat to a preconceived masculinity.
Nadia Beugré, who has always been interested in gender issues, tackles them directly in her work “L'Homme rare”.
On stage are five dancers who define themselves as male. They wear heels, they show the back of their naked bodies, they move on a common choreographic construction, based on the study of urban dances from all over the world, in which what unites them is the swaying of their pelvises.
Taking as her starting point a game that confounds our perception, the choreographer examines the attitudes that, based on prejudice, define people in one gender or the other and she has the audience take a voyeuristic position from which to observe and judge.
Slaves were assessed for their physical fitness, but have we really moved away from a mercantile gaze on bodies?
Among the most internationally celebrated of Africa’s contemporary dancers. Her symbols, her metaphors are downright dizzying in their resonance.
This show is included in the ticket pass GENDER ISSUES
