culture – Reims – Dance Published at 06:30
Five dancers allow a motionless journey to southern Mexico, among the Muxes. (© DR)
The Manège de Reims inaugurates 2024 with Sous les Fleurs, a piece by Thomas Lebrun which is inspired by his journey of thought, before meeting the Muxes. The Muxe community, in the south of Mexico, among the Zapotecs, has the particularity of representing a third gender, and has done so since pre-Columbian times. “Men with women’s hearts”, as they are called, dress femininely and enjoy their femininity in broad daylight. Thus, they take care of the home and the children, without having the right to marry.
It was in Juchitan, city of flowers, that the choreographer Thomas Lebrun went to meet them to learn more about them, to live with them for a while. From this trip, he designed a “choreographic documentary” which he entrusted to five high-level performers. In their shimmering costumes, their elongated movements, under the flowers of their headdresses, these men shed new light on the masculine gender, in a dreamlike and almost mystical way. The bodies thus delivered in turn raise questions about our Western societies where there is no legal third gender, but where the possibility of forming a couple is acquired and universal (even if sometimes, in adversity…). Sous les Fleurs is therefore seen as a journey to a welcoming land, deep, powerful, but also modest, sensitive, almost muffled. Far from prejudice and rejection, the highlighting of the Muxes is only grace and liberation.
Agathe Cèbe
Sous les Fleurs, Thursday January 18 at 8 p.m. and Friday January 19 at 7 p.m., at the Manège de Reims. Prices: 6 to 23€. Info: manege-reims.eu
Liens :
www.manege-reims.eu
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2024-01-14 05:34:31
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