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SAVUSUN - 2018

«The body implies mortality, vulnerability, agency: the skin and the flesh expose us to the gaze of others, but also to touch, and to violence..» 
  Judith Butler
 
 
Savušun ســـووشون  is an ode to vulnerability, to affection, to affected beings. Like a folktale, this solo finds its inspiration in commemorative Shiite rituals in Iran : the Tazi’eh and the Sin’eh Zani ceremony. Within this collective history I weave a more intimate story that questions the representation of complex and paradoxical emotions. Here, the suffering, sadness and fear that minoritized bodies endure are addressed and transformed through play, with humor and hybrid gestures both grotesque and graceful. Between real loss and symbolic loss, Savušun goes from comfort to discomfort, from tenderness to cruelty, from toxic masculinity to vulnerable identity. Trouble remains.

Conception, Choreography and Performance
SOROUR DARABI
Light Design
YANNICK FOUASSIER & JEAN-MARC SEGALEN
Dramaturgy
PAULINE L. BOULBA
Outside Eyes
CELINE CARTILLIER
MATHIEU BOUVIER
Sound Design
CLÉMENT BERNERD

EXCLUSIVE PRODUCTION DEEPDAWN

COPRODUCTION
Montpellier Danse 2018, creation residency at the Agora, cité internationale de la danse, with the support of the Fondation BNP Paribas, CND Centre national de la danse, La Villette artists’residency, La Maison CDCN Uzès Gard Occitanie with the support of La Fée Nadou-résidence d’artistes, Zürcher Theater Spektakel, ICI - Centre chorégraphique national Montpellier / Occitanie, Sophiensaele, Fonds Transfabrik – Fonds franco-allemand pour le spectacle vivant,
and the support from the SPEDIDAM and from the Ballet du Nord (for a studio)