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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.

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