MOTHERS & DAUGHTERS (2024)
with Sulekha Ali Omar and Safia Abdi Haase, Christine Nypan and Drude Haga, Erzsébet Gyarmati and Eszter Salamon
MOTHERS & DAUGHTERS addresses transgenerational relations and explores practices of care for new ways of composing with empathy, intimacy, and feminist genealogies. Breaking with a supposedly ‘natural’ female bond or the assumed intimacy between mothers and daughters, this work invests the social and cultural relationships as a choreographic and emancipatory space.
How can a choreographic approach of mothering and daughtering resonate with both personal and collective emotions and imagination? How does the work shed importance on shared trangenerational experiences and allow viewers to deeply connect to their own experiences and practices of care?
Concept and artistic direction Eszter Salamon Choreography and performance Erzsébet Gyarmati and Eszter Salamon, Sulekha Ali Omar and Safia Abdi Haase, Christine Nypan and Drude Haga Technical direction Matteo Bambi Original scenography Eszter Salamon and Sylvie Garot Direction production Elodie Perrin Production Elisabeth Carmen Gmeiner Dramaturgical advice Bojana Cvéjic Thanks to Snelle Hall, Manuel Pelmus Production Studio ES, Botschaft GbR/ Alexandra Wellensiek
Co-production Ménagerie de verre (Paris) , Festival d’Automne à Paris (F), PACT Zollverein (Essen), Fonds Transfabrik, a German-French Fund for Performing Arts With the support of KHIO Oslo, the Regional Directory of Cultural Affairs of Paris – Ministry of Culture and Communication, Ville de Paris, Fund for Performing Artists (FFUK)
Extracts of Composition As Explanation by Gertrude Stein, Uses of the Erotic: The Erotic as Power de Audre Lorde, Playfulness, "World"-Travelling, and Loving Perception by María Lugones
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with Sulekha Ali Omar and Safia Abdi Haase, Christine Nypan and Drude Haga, Erzsébet Gyarmati and Eszter Salamon
MOTHERS & DAUGHTERS addresses transgenerational relations and explores practices of care for new ways of composing with empathy, intimacy, and feminist genealogies. Breaking with a supposedly ‘natural’ female bond or the assumed intimacy between mothers and daughters, this work invests the social and cultural relationships as a choreographic and emancipatory space.
How can a choreographic approach of mothering and daughtering resonate with both personal and collective emotions and imagination? How does the work shed importance on shared trangenerational experiences and allow viewers to deeply connect to their own experiences and practices of care?
Concept and artistic direction Eszter Salamon Choreography and performance Erzsébet Gyarmati and Eszter Salamon, Sulekha Ali Omar and Safia Abdi Haase, Christine Nypan and Drude Haga Technical direction Matteo Bambi Original scenography Eszter Salamon and Sylvie Garot Direction production Elodie Perrin Production Elisabeth Carmen Gmeiner Dramaturgical advice Bojana Cvéjic Thanks to Snelle Hall, Manuel Pelmus Production Studio ES, Botschaft GbR/ Alexandra Wellensiek
Co-production Ménagerie de verre (Paris) , Festival d’Automne à Paris (F), PACT Zollverein (Essen), Fonds Transfabrik, a German-French Fund for Performing Arts With the support of KHIO Oslo, the Regional Directory of Cultural Affairs of Paris – Ministry of Culture and Communication, Ville de Paris, Fund for Performing Artists (FFUK)
Extracts of Composition As Explanation by Gertrude Stein, Uses of the Erotic: The Erotic as Power de Audre Lorde, Playfulness, "World"-Travelling, and Loving Perception by María Lugones
Photos: ©Eszter Salamon