MATRIMONIA
MATRIMONIA spans from tango to contemporary dance and physical theater. With the support of dance and video projection, Oussaifi and Wanka take us into a contemporary feminist universe.
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The show opens with the words of a tango projected on the wall, then translated into Arabic and recited in voice-over. This is not just any tango. It's not a tango about romantic love, nor is it a nostalgic tango about one's hometown or the past, to take up the most common themes of the genre.
This tango is called "un crimen" - a crime - and poetically narrates the confession of a feminicide and its absolution as a crime of honor.
Oussaifi and Wanka have chosen this Tango to question the patriarchal principle and the legitimacy of the notion of Heritage/Patrimoine through tango (which has been declared intangible cultural heritage by the UNESCO in 2009), searching for traces of specifically female lineage in our so called ‘universal’ heritages.
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Idea I Concept I Choreography I Interpretation
Fatma Oussaifi & Rosalie Wanka
Text MATRIMOINE
Fatma Oussaifi
Costumes I Light design
Fatma Oussaifi & Rosalie Wanka
Lay out I graphic design projections
Fatma Oussaifi
Sound composition
Fred Metayer
Sound track
Rosalie Wanka & Fred Metayer
Voice Confession Feminicide (interpretation of the tango text in arabic)
Mohamed Houcine Grayaa
Music
- Tango 'Un crimen': Luis Rubistein (composer, author), Raúl Beron (singer) and the Miguel Caló. Orchestra
- 'Send in the drums' – James Asher
- Tango 'Como dos extranos': Pedro Laurenz (composer), José Maria Contursi (author), Fatma Oussaifi (singer).
Voices
Fatma Oussaifi, Rosalie Wanka, Irina Wanka, Azza Filali, Azza Baaziz, Sidonie Gaucher
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Supported by
Association Al Badil, Centre des Arts Vivants de Radès, Goethe Institut Tunis, Austrian Embassy in Tunis, Studio Bendixen.