Quartiers libres revisited
Schedule
Thursday, October 24, 2024
Friday, October 25, 2024
Saturday, October 26, 2024
Quartiers libres (free rein) explores and reveals those peculiar spaces we are trapped in, those forbidden places where we choose to wander: spaces open to endless possibilities, spaces to surrender and allow for revelation. Twelve years after its premiere in France, Nadia Beugré revisits her emblematic solo with two emerging artists from the Ivory Coast.
Duration: 55 minutes
Co-Presented with New York Live Arts.
This performance is supported by FUSED, a program of Albertine Foundation in partnership with Villa Albertine.
Venue
Nadia Beugré
Born in Ivory Coast, Nadia Beugré is a founding member of Béatrice Kombé’s groundbreaking, all-female dance ensemble TchéTché, with whom she toured for years to critical acclaim across Africa, Europe and North America. After Beatrice Kombé’s passing, she trained at Germaine Acogny’s École des sables in Senegal, and then joined the exerce master at the CCN de Montpellier under Mathilde Monnier’s direction.
Beugré’s body of work includes the still-touring solo Quartiers libres (2012), Legacy (2015), Tapis Rouge (2017), Roukasskass Club (2019), L’Homme rare (2020), an all-male quintet performance and the duet Filles-Pétroles (2023). Her work relentlessly explores the hidden, the disturbing, the unsettling, the margins, while celebrating the misfits.
Beugré is associate artist at the Briqueterie in Vitry-sur-Seine (2021-2023) and ICI CCN de Montpellier Occitanie (2023-2024). In 2023 she was awarded the SACD Prize for New Choreographic Talent. With Virginie Dupray, Beugré founded in Montpellier the Libr’Arts company in 2020; it serves as a platform for production, touring, training, and artistic development between France and Ivory Coast.
Credits
Choreography, set design: Nadia Beugré
Performance: Nadia Beugré, Beyoncé, Kevin Sery
Dramaturgy: Boris Hennion
Costumes: Nadia Beugré & Boris Hennion
Light Design: Laurent Bourgeois & Erik Houllier
Light & stage manager: Beatriz Kaysel
Sound Landscape « alarms »: Mathieu Grenier
Executive production: Libr’Arts / Virginie DuprayCo-Presented with New York Live Arts
New York Live Arts is an internationally recognized destination for innovative performance and humanities programming, offering audiences access to art and ideas by creatives notable for their conceptual rigor, formal experimentation and active engagement with the sociopolitical and cultural currents of our times. Led by world-renowned artist Bill T. Jones, New York Live Arts supports artists at all stages of their careers through our residencies, commissions, and artist services. It also serves as home base for the Bill T. Jones/Arnie Zane Company, which has been creating groundbreaking work for over forty years.
Production at L’Alliance New York
Programming Manager: Clementine Guinchat
Support for Crossing The Line
    
and The Wescustogo Foundation
Support for dance programming in Crossing The Line from The Harkness Foundation for Dance
Supported by FUSED, a program of Albertine Foundation in partnership with Villa Albertine, and by Dance Reflections by Van Cleef & Arpels.
    
L’Alliance New York’s programs are made possible by the New York State Council on the Arts with the Support of the Office of the Governor and the New York State Legislature.
Photo Credits:
Lead Image ©Yi-Chun Wu
Nadia Beugré ©Bea Borgers-1 – Virginie Dupray
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