three urban dances intertwined in a “Trio” – Liberation

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–The German director Monika Gintersdorfer will present her collaboration with Alex Mugler, legend of New York fashion, Carlos Gabriel Martinez, coming from Mexican urban dances, and Computer, protagonist of the Ivorian coupé-décalé from Wednesday in Bobigny.–

One evening in 2002, in a club in Hamburg, director Monika Gintersdorfer is thrilled with the fantasy of a man’s dress and dance style. She is an Ivorian designer. He gives her his business card, she goes to what she thinks is her shop, it’s actually her house, and dozens of people from the Ivorian community flock to this small apartment who have come to sew and perfect their clothing for the next outing of the club. Among these, Franck Edmond Yao alias Gadoukou la Star, one of the coupé-décalé dancers of the Solo Béton group, a counterproductive dance style that was just beginning to spread from West Africa to the major European capitals where the diaspora lives. Together they will give life to dozens of shows, three of which presented at the Festival In d’Avignon. Passionate about community dances and their incredible ways of shuffling the cards of power, Monika Gintersdorfer returns today to the Ile-de-France to present Threesome (for the beauty of it)a sort of family portrait of Alex Mugler, legend of the fashion New Yorker, Carlos Gabriel Martinez, who came from Mexican urban dances, and Computer, a young protagonist of the Ivorian coupé-décalé.

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