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No Anger «Quasimodo aux miroirs»

A person dressed in black sits on a stage, slightly bent forward, with arms extended behind their back. A large white fabric is partially under and over their feet, creating a contrast with the dark clothing. To the right, a tall, rectangular mirror reflects part of the stage. The background is a plain, dark wall, and the overall atmosphere appears subdued and contemplative.

In «Quasimodo aux miroirs» the examination of the legacy of cultural body images is condensed into a choreographic reflection on identity, queer desire and crip representation. The starting point is the character of Quasimodo - embodied in the Disney animated film and in the musical Notre Dame de Paris - which, as one of the few popular representations of a disabled body, shaped the childhood of No Anger (artist and researcher).

Quasimodo serves here as the starting point for a multi-layered investigation: how do our deeply rooted, culturally moulded body images influence our perception of real bodies? NoAnger's performance dissects the normative expectations of the body and tracesthe path of a (re)appropriation of one's own body: from the ambivalent identification with Quasimodo, the fear of embodying him, to the conscious detachment and the invention of new narratives of disabled bodies.

Access  

  • Open Audio Description in French
  • German translation
  • Sign Language in LSF, LIS and DSGS  
  • Relaxed Performance 
  • Wheelchair Accessible 
  • Duration: 67 Minuten

Quasimodo serves here as the starting point for a multi-layered investigation: how do our deeply rooted, culturally moulded body images influence our perception of real bodies? 

NoAnger's performance dissects the normative expectations of the body and tracesthe path of a (re)appropriation of one's own body: from the ambivalent identification with Quasimodo, the fear of embodying him, to the conscious detachment and the invention of new narratives of disabled bodies. Mirrors become a means of deconstruction - they break the voyeuristic gaze, fragment, distort and question the logic of the "monstrous". Language, movement and video collage scraps of memory, projections and resistance. «Quasimodo aux miroirs» is a choreographic study of the tension between external attribution and self-design - and of how a crip-bodymind can free itself from these attributions and reclaim its own narrative. 

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