Self Portrait Camouflage / Latifa Laâbissi
September 24, 8:30pm - Les Halles de Schaerbeek (Brussels)

“Between the first World Fair in 1855 to the Colonial Fair of 1937, France produced eleven different events, whose exceptional quality and renown brought them to export similar work abroad, giving their audiences ample occasion to applaud these rich spectacles revealing the splendors of its colonial Empire. Men, women and children were the object of curious attractions … In the year 2010, Marianne carries out her own investigation in these areas haunted by the phantoms of the Republic’s greatest exhibitions. Not to worry, between the cannibals and the young Polynesian women – full integration is guaranteed.”
What remains of colonial France? Latifa Laâbissi asks us this question, generating a healthy respect for her subject, with an appropriately grating sense of humour. Fortunately her use of derision and her droll and quirky accents are revelatory of her process and her commitment to her ideas.

Conception et réalisation : Latifa Laâbissi
Dispositif scénographique : Nadia Lauro
Dramaturgie : Christophe Wavelet
Création lumière : Yannick Fouassier
Son : Olivier Renouf
Costume : Latifa Laâbissi et Nadia Lauro

Production association ORO. Coproduction Les Spectacles vivants - Centre Pompidou
Centre Chorégraphique National de Montpellier Languedoc-Roussillon - Centre National de Danse Contemporaine Angers

FIGURE PROJECT  est subventionnée par le Ministère de la Culture - DRAC Bretagne, le Conseil Régional de Bretagne  et la ville de  Rennes.
Contact : Latitudes Prod. (Lille)

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