After exploring collective energy in RUUPTUUR with its quartet of cyborg-centaurs, the choreographer and performer seen in i-Clit has returned to solo work and embarked on a new cycle of research. Fascinated by the iconic figure of the singer, Mercedes Dassy dreams up a fictional double, entrusting her with words written between 2020 and 2023 about various stages in her own life, and in parallel working to set them to music.
We meet Spongebabe on the eve of the release of her album 4 Love & Anxiety during rehearsals, as she also gives an intimate account of her experiences and reflections on the crises she went through, revealing her vulnerability, sweetness and rebirth.
Recurring leitmotifs with Dassy, rupture and pop culture feature in this opus whose vocabulary is“continuously kept on the edge of the natural, with the lines between fabrication and spontaneity blurred”.
Concept, chorégraphie, écriture et interprétation : Mercedes Dassy / Dramaturgie : Hanna El Fakir / Production musicale et création sonore : Maxime Pichon / Costumes, accessoires et scénographie : Flavie Torsiello / Création lumière : Vera Martíns / Regards extérieurs : Sabine Cmelniski, Svétäl-Anand Chassol, Alphone Eklou / Assistanat à la mise en scène : Fanny Brulé Kopp / DJ set de recherche : Yasmina Tayoub / Heels dance coach : Zoë Chungong / Stagiaires : Morgane Brien-Hamdane, Géraldine Tatard, Angelica Ardiot, Robin Dehenain / Production et diffusion : ama brussels
Production déléguée : ama brussels / Coproduction : Charleroi danse, Les halles de Schaerbeek, CCNO Centre Chorégraphique National d'Orléans, CCN2 Grenoble, CCN-Ballet national de Marseille, les SUBS / Résidences : Charleroi danse, Théâtre Varia, le BAMP, les SUBS, CCNO Centre Chorégraphique National d'Orléans, CCN2 Grenoble, CCN-Ballet national de Marseille, Théâtre National Wallonie-Bruxelles, CN D Centre national de la danse, Lafayette Anticipations
Mercedes Dassy est artiste associée à Charleroi danse de 2023 à 2026
