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Corset Drama - Seated on a carpet, the performers move and speak with movement from the pelvis that are loosely inspired by Martha Graham’s technique for modern dance. Breathing techniques implemented as a medium for expression in modern dance such as hope, despair, and desire, are regulated by the experience of wearing corsets, tight-laced, and asphyxiating. Breathing and vocal exercises for the activation of the singing voice’s head-register bring this quest into higher realms where voices reach a dreamy reappraisal of sex and sexuality. Thoughts across these mediums are spun together in this Anglo-French dialogue/duet with co-creators, Artémise Ploegaerts, who performs and provides choreography, and Faysal Mroueh who composed the score. The corset/leotards are designed by Anouk van Wijk, and the bustier was produced together with Lotte Nijhof. Rijksakademie Open 2024 Photos are by Ozgur Atlahan
La Petite Fadette -
Rooted in the present, this folk/noise/noire musical brings together a crossdresser, a French country girl, and a fairy. Referencing jealousy, dysphoria, desire, and encaged sexuality/gender, the music conjures up deep repression through its slow but climatic progression. In the deathly, tortuous grip of the corsets exist the ideals and fantasies which morph the body. When the fairy enters the scene, she immediately assumes the role of arbiter of taste and fashion. Ultimately, this film is part of an investigation into the language and daily rituals of fashion and getting dressed, showing how thinking and feeling through all this can help emancipate us from historical or societal scripts.
Rijksakademie Open 2024 installation view. photo by Sander van Wettum
Cold in Church demo: Cuckold Theme
Some Scenes fragment, 2021
Interview met Najiba Brakkee voor Trendbeheer
Song of the Fairy, extract film Malfunction:
