La Mer

Performance (Showing)

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Concept, Direction and Interpretation: Aliénor Dauchez
Costumes: Miriam Marto, Aliénor Dauchez
Music, Arrangements: Allan Nilles
Dramaturgy: Jette Büchsenschütz, Bastian Zimmermann
Advice Choreography: Josefine Mühle
Advice Singing: Jessica Gadani
Production: Livia Tarsia in Curia, Julius Graupner
Assistance: Violette Daures, Eugénie Picard, Anaëlle Dreyer

Special Thanks to: Jeroen Meijer and Artur Albrecht

2023

Kasper Theater Rixdorf, Böhmischer Platz, Berlin-Neukölln

A La Cage production
Funded with help from the Beauftragte der Bundesregierung für Kultur und Medien im Programm NEUSTART KULTUR, Hilfsprogramm DIS-TANZEN des Dachverband Tanz Deutschland

In La Mer (the sea, but also La Mère, the mother), a salt water fountain becomes the symbol of an infinitely flowing body, in which images of the holy virgin, Mother Courage and weeping influencers, images of anger and tenderness merge. Fluctuating between idealization and disillusionment, unconditional love and frustration - experiences of motherhood and parenthood are as complex and contradictory as their socially normed role clichés. Based on art-historical and pop-cultural references, Aliénor Dauchez questions in her installative solo performance - also her own - ambivalent experiences as mother and daughter.