Dance 
La Ribot / Mathilde Monnier / Tiago Rodrigues

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La Ribot,

born in Madrid and currently based in Geneva, is a choreographer, dancer, director and visual artist; a radically multidisciplinary creator. Her work has its origins in movement, the body, and her own background in dance, to which she adds other practices, systems and materials as they become necessary. From the beginning of her career her work has included live performance, video, speech, sign language, found art, installations and “relational” works. She has involved different communities in her performances and videos, both professional colleagues and people with no experience in the world of art. Her works have been presented at the Tate Modern (London), the Centre Pompidou (Paris), the Panorama Festival (Rio de Janeiro) and Art Basel. In 2020, La Biennale Danza (Venice) awarded her the Golden Lion for Lifetime Achievement.

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Mathilde Monnier

is a role model in French and international contemporary dance’s landscape. From piece to piece she defies expectations by presenting a work in constant renewal. Her nomination at the head of the Choreographic Centre of Montpellier Languedoc-Roussillon in 1994 marks the beginning of a series of collaborations with personalities from various artistic fields (Jean-Luc Nancy, Katerine, Christine Angot, La Ribot, Heiner Goebbels…). She created more than 40 choreographic works presented on the great stages of the Avignon festival, the biggest theaters of Paris, New York, Vienna, Berlin, London… and received several awards for her work : The French Ministry of Culture prize, the SACD Grand Prix. Between 2014 and 2019 she was the general director of the National Dance Centre in Pantin.

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Tiago Rodrigues

is a Portuguese theatre director and producer. In addition to his collaborations with several Portuguese and international stage artists, he has also written screenplays, newspaper contributions and literary texts and taught at institutions that include that Belgian dance school P.A.R.T.S. The theatre of Tiago Rodrigues is always developed for and with the actors, striving to blend reality and fiction through poetry. He regards theatre as a “human assembly” – a place where people meet, as in a café, to share their thoughts and spend time together. As director of the Teatro Nacional D. Maria II, Tiago Rodrigues is a builder of bridges between cities and countries, at once host and advocate of a living theatre.

Credits

Concept 
La Ribot, Mathilde Monnier, Tiago Rodrigues 
With 
La Ribot, Mathilde Monnier 
Translation 
Thomas Resendes 
Scenography 
Annie Tolleter 
Light design 
Éric Wurtz 
Music 
Nicolas Houssin 
Costume design 
La Ribot, Mathilde Monnier 
Set construction 
Christian Frappereau, Mathilde Monnier 
Costumers 
Marion Schmid, Letizia Compitiello 
Technical and light management  
Marie Prédour 
Sound management  
Nicolas Houssin 
Bühnenmanagement 
Guillaume Defontaine 
Stage management 
Béla Bartók  
Music (extracts)  
Julie Le Gall – Bureau Cokot 
International distribution 
Otto Productions / Théâtre Garonne – Scène européenne 
Production 
Fondation d’entreprise Hermès within the framework of the New Settings Programme 
Co-produced by 
Théâtre Le Quai – CDN Angers-Pays de la Loire; Teatros del Canal, Madrid (Spain); Théâtre Vidy-Lausanne (Switzerland); Centre national d’art et de culture Georges-Pompidou (Paris); Festival d’Automne (Paris); Comédie de Genève (Switzerland); Teatro Nacional D. Maria II, Lisbon (Portugal); Teatro nacional São João (Portugal); Le Parvis scène nationale Tarbes Pyrénées; Theaterfestival Boulevard (Netherlands); Les Hivernales – CDCN d’Avignon; BIT Teatergarasjen, Bergen (Norway); Compagnie MM; Compagnie La Ribot-Genève 
Supported by 
OPART / Estúdios Victor Córdon and CND Centre national de la Danse – Pantin 
With the support of 

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Exclusion, transformation, disappearance… In what ways do social institutions like the church, schools and theatres leave marks on the human body? Mathilde Monnier and La Ribot use dance to examine this central question in Michel Foucault’s philosophical oeuvre, accompanied by the poetic language of Portuguese director Tiago Rodriques and music by Béla Bartók. Set against an apocalyptic background, the two dancers will present an impassionate reflection on humanity’s path to self-annihilation, both as an ode to beauty as well as in defence of the horrific. The urgency of an ever more accelerated and immanent future will be expressed through an intimate and universal dialogue between a mother and her daughter – discussing in what ways we failed and what may still be possible. What kinds of worlds, societies and histories will we pass on to future generations? How can we succeed in overcoming the present, giving hope of a better future?

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La Ribot,

born in Madrid and currently based in Geneva, is a choreographer, dancer, director and visual artist; a radically multidisciplinary creator. Her work has its origins in movement, the body, and her own background in dance, to which she adds other practices, systems and materials as they become necessary. From the beginning of her career her work has included live performance, video, speech, sign language, found art, installations and “relational” works. She has involved different communities in her performances and videos, both professional colleagues and people with no experience in the world of art. Her works have been presented at the Tate Modern (London), the Centre Pompidou (Paris), the Panorama Festival (Rio de Janeiro) and Art Basel. In 2020, La Biennale Danza (Venice) awarded her the Golden Lion for Lifetime Achievement.

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Mathilde Monnier

is a role model in French and international contemporary dance’s landscape. From piece to piece she defies expectations by presenting a work in constant renewal. Her nomination at the head of the Choreographic Centre of Montpellier Languedoc-Roussillon in 1994 marks the beginning of a series of collaborations with personalities from various artistic fields (Jean-Luc Nancy, Katerine, Christine Angot, La Ribot, Heiner Goebbels…). She created more than 40 choreographic works presented on the great stages of the Avignon festival, the biggest theaters of Paris, New York, Vienna, Berlin, London… and received several awards for her work : The French Ministry of Culture prize, the SACD Grand Prix. Between 2014 and 2019 she was the general director of the National Dance Centre in Pantin.

mathildemonnier.com

Tiago Rodrigues

is a Portuguese theatre director and producer. In addition to his collaborations with several Portuguese and international stage artists, he has also written screenplays, newspaper contributions and literary texts and taught at institutions that include that Belgian dance school P.A.R.T.S. The theatre of Tiago Rodrigues is always developed for and with the actors, striving to blend reality and fiction through poetry. He regards theatre as a “human assembly” – a place where people meet, as in a café, to share their thoughts and spend time together. As director of the Teatro Nacional D. Maria II, Tiago Rodrigues is a builder of bridges between cities and countries, at once host and advocate of a living theatre.

Credits

Concept 
La Ribot, Mathilde Monnier, Tiago Rodrigues 
With 
La Ribot, Mathilde Monnier 
Translation 
Thomas Resendes 
Scenography 
Annie Tolleter 
Light design 
Éric Wurtz 
Music 
Nicolas Houssin 
Costume design 
La Ribot, Mathilde Monnier 
Set construction 
Christian Frappereau, Mathilde Monnier 
Costumers 
Marion Schmid, Letizia Compitiello 
Technical and light management  
Marie Prédour 
Sound management  
Nicolas Houssin 
Bühnenmanagement 
Guillaume Defontaine 
Stage management 
Béla Bartók  
Music (extracts)  
Julie Le Gall – Bureau Cokot 
International distribution 
Otto Productions / Théâtre Garonne – Scène européenne 
Production 
Fondation d’entreprise Hermès within the framework of the New Settings Programme 
Co-produced by 
Théâtre Le Quai – CDN Angers-Pays de la Loire; Teatros del Canal, Madrid (Spain); Théâtre Vidy-Lausanne (Switzerland); Centre national d’art et de culture Georges-Pompidou (Paris); Festival d’Automne (Paris); Comédie de Genève (Switzerland); Teatro Nacional D. Maria II, Lisbon (Portugal); Teatro nacional São João (Portugal); Le Parvis scène nationale Tarbes Pyrénées; Theaterfestival Boulevard (Netherlands); Les Hivernales – CDCN d’Avignon; BIT Teatergarasjen, Bergen (Norway); Compagnie MM; Compagnie La Ribot-Genève 
Supported by 
OPART / Estúdios Victor Córdon and CND Centre national de la Danse – Pantin 
With the support of 
16.10./
17.10.
Fri/​Sat
19.30
60 min
16.10./
17.10.
Fri/​Sat
19.30
60 min
TQW Halle G
€ 20/15/10

In French with English surtitles

 
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