Balkis Moutashar
Saturday 26 Sep 2020 from 1pm to 2:15pm, from 2:45pm to 4pm
Sunday 27 Sep 2020 from 12pm to 1:15pm, from 1:45pm to 3pm
Free admission
Balkis Moutashar, Attitudes habillées - les soli
© Martin Argyroglo
Balkis Moutashar
"Attitudes habillées - les soli", 2020
Attitudes habillées - les soli by Balkis Moutashar, proposes a journey through the history of clothing, and the history of the body shapes that garments have designed over time.
From corsets, which organically modified women's bodies, to oversized headdresses or fantastic shoes with trays creating the illusion of huge bodies, clothing has drawn sometimes spectacular silhouettes, influencing the possibilities of movement and displacement of those who wore them and engaging the body in the representation from the outset.
Based on reconstructions of historical pieces of clothing, Balkis Moutashar has designed four silhouettes and four soli, here distributed in different spaces of the Foundation, which propose to activate the memory that our contemporary bodies can wear of this history: have generations of corsets and metal false bottoms left traces on our bodies today and our ways of moving? Are we wearing the hood in 2020 as we used to wear traditional headdresses in the past? Do our clothes still influence our movements and approaches, our postures and our impulses?
From corsets, which organically modified women's bodies, to oversized headdresses or fantastic shoes with trays creating the illusion of huge bodies, clothing has drawn sometimes spectacular silhouettes, influencing the possibilities of movement and displacement of those who wore them and engaging the body in the representation from the outset.
Based on reconstructions of historical pieces of clothing, Balkis Moutashar has designed four silhouettes and four soli, here distributed in different spaces of the Foundation, which propose to activate the memory that our contemporary bodies can wear of this history: have generations of corsets and metal false bottoms left traces on our bodies today and our ways of moving? Are we wearing the hood in 2020 as we used to wear traditional headdresses in the past? Do our clothes still influence our movements and approaches, our postures and our impulses?
Balkis Moutashar est une danseuse éclectique croisant les univers de la danse contemporaine, du music-hall, du théâtre, de la performance et de la musique électronique ayant fait des études de philosophie, et une formation en danse contemporaine au CCN de Montpellier.
Elle crée sa compagnie en 2009, après différents travaux personnels explorant des territoires entre la danse et les arts plastiques. Elle a crée depuis 6 yeux, un visage et deux pieds (pour le moment) et Lautrétranger (2009), A quelle distance sommes nous des autres ? et Les portes pareilles (2013), Intersection et Shirley (2016) et De tête en cape (2019).
La question de l’écriture du mouvement est centrale dans son travail : quel(s) mouvement(s) porte-t-on sur la scène aujourd’hui, quelles sont ses origines, ses occurrences, et comment l’appréhender ? Que dit-il du corps contemporain ? Elle développe ainsi un travail du corps exigeant qui s’appuie sur la décomposition du mouvement, la dissociation du corps et les accumulations de différents états.
Elle est engagée depuis 2018 dans un cycle autour de la question du costume et du vêtement, de leur histoire et de leur empreinte sur les corps.