Latifa Laâbissi & Antonia Baehr
CONSUL ET MESHIE

LATIFA LAÂBISSI Mixing genres and redefining formats, the creations of Latifa Laâbissi bring onstage multiple off-stage / off-field elements channeling different figures and voices. The staging of these voices and the face as a vehicle of minority states ties into the danced portions of the work in Self portrait camouflage (2006) and Loredreamsong (2010). Continuing her thematic study of archives, she created Écran somnambule and La part du rite (2012) based on German dance from the 1920’s. Pourvu qu’on ait l’ivresse (2016), co-signed with the set designer Nadia Lauro, created visions, landscapes and images, combining excess, monstrosity, the beautiful, the random, the comic and fear. Since 2011, Latifa Laâbissi has been Artistic Director of the Extension Sauvage artistic and pedagogical program and festival in rural Brittany. In 2016, a monography on the ensemble of her work was published by the Editions Les Laboratoires d’Aubervilliers and Les presses du réel. In 2018, she creates with Antonia Baehr the performance Consul et Meshie. She also gather in 2019 for the video Moving Backwards by Pauline Boudry and Renate Lorenz, presented in the Swiss Pavillon of the 58th Venice Biennale. The same year, her creation White Dog is shown at european festivals (Marseille, Tanz im August – Berlin, Automne à Paris, festival TNB Rennes), before a french and international tour. In 2021, the creation Ghost Party (part I) is a duet-performance with the Dutch videomaker Manon de Boer, which will forms a pair with a film by Autumn, Ghost Party (part II). Both parts will be exhibited in FRAC Bretagne. At the same time, Latifa Laâbissi prepares a new piece with the brasilian choreographer Marcelo Evelin. This almost all-night party, entitled La Nuit tombe quand elle veut will be created by Fall 2021 at the Festival TNB in Rennes. In 2022, Fugitive Archives a group piece will be created for the CCN Ballet de Lorraine.

ANTONIA BAEHR Next to choreographic elements, Antonia Baehr is interested in rules and the laws which a society (and in particular the space in a theatre) assigns to bodies, to make them recognizable and comprehensible. She is a performer, a filmmaker and a visual artist, and as a choreographer she searches in everyday fiction and theatre, working at the edges of that which defines us as human beings—placing us via a voluptuous see-saw in critical positions. She is interested in the opposition between humans and animals but also in elements in representational space. In her work she interacts with, among others, Neo Hülcker, Pauline Boudry and Renate Lorenz, Andrea Neumann, Latifa Laâbissi, William Wheeler and Valérie Castan, and with others who are interested inthe changing of roles: from project to project, each artist is alternately the host or the guest. In 2019, she acts as Werner Hirsch in the last video Moving Backwards by Pauline Boudry and Renate Lorenz, presented in the Swiss Pavillon of the 58th Venice Biennale. Her last collaboration with Lucile Desamory, Die Besondere Perücke, is created in Leipzig, on February 1st 2020. Baehr is also the producer for the horse whisperer and dancer Werner Hirsch, the musician and choreographer Henri Fleur, the composer Henry Wilt and the emerging composer of contemporary music (and her ex-husband) Henry Wilde.

NADIA LAURO As a visual artist and set designer, Nadia Lauro has been developing her work for several decades in various contexts (scenic spaces, landscape architectures, museums). She has conceived set designs, environments, and visual installations with strong dramaturgical power, thus generating new ways of seeing and being together.Nadia Lauro has collaborated with the following international choreographers and performers: Vera Mantero, Benoît Lachambre, Frans Poelstra, Barbara Kraus, Emmanuelle Huynh, Fanny de Chaillé, Alain Buffard, Antonija Livingstone, Latifa Laabissi, Jonathan Capdevielle, Laeticia Dosh, and with Jennifer Lacey with whom she co-authored numerous projects.Les Presses du Réel published “Jennifer Lacey & Nadia lauro -dispositifs chorégraphiques” by Alexandra Baudelot.
She recieved a New York Dance and Performance Award (The Bessie) for her visual installation in $Shot (Lacey/Lauro/Parkins/Cornell).In 1998 she founded Squash Cake Bureau with the architect Laurence Cremel to develop landscape design and urban furniture projects.
She also designed concerts (Cocorosie, Gaspard Yurkévitch, Dani Siciliano)
She has conceived the installations / performances: “Tu montes”, “As Atletas”, “I hear voices”, and has developed scripted environments in museums, theater houses, and art galleries in Europe, Japan, and Korea.For the 4th edition of the New Festival at the Centre Pompidou, she has presented “La Clairière” (Fanny de Chaillé / Nadia Lauro), an immersive visual environment designed to hear “Khhhhhhh”, Imaginary and Invented Languages.
Since 2014, Nadia Lauro is associate artist to the Extension Sauvage Festival (Latifa Laabissi / Figure Project).

Distribution:

Conceived and interpreted by : Latifa Laâbissi and Antonia Baehr

In a visual installation of : Nadia Lauro Figures : Antonia Baehr, Latifa Laâbissi and Nadia Lauro

Sound and lights: Carola Caggiano

Broadcasting / production: Fanny Virelizier (Figure Project) / Alexandra Wellensiek (make up productions)

Administration: Marie Cherfils

“Mira’s Morning Song”: Rayna Rapp for her daughter Mira Rapp-Hooper, in Primate Visions: Gender, Race and Nature in the World of Modern Science, Donna Haraway, 1989, performed by Danielle and Jean-Yves Auvray

Conception of the ” French Theory Memory ” : Hilà Lahav

Thanks to : Vinciane Despret, Donna Haraway, Les Laboratoires d’Aubervilliers, Melanie Poppe, Rayna Rapp, Constanze Schellow, Emilia and Kathrin Schlosser, Mia Sellmann, the Hau Hebbel Am Ufer team, Jean-Yves and Danielle Auvray

Crédits & mentions : 

Production : Figure Project / make up productions
Coproduction : HAU Hebbel am Ufer in Berlin (Germany), Le Magasin des horizons in Grenoble (France), Xing/Live Arts Week VII in Bologna (Italy), CCN2 Centre Chorégraphique National de Grenoble, La Ménagerie de Verre (Paris)
With the support of the Hauptstadtkulturfonds and the Senatsverwaltung für Kultur und Europa
Figure Project is supported by the Ministry of Culture – Drac Bretagne as part of the conventioned companies, the regional council of Brittany, the Department of Ille-et-Vilaine and the City of Rennes.

Dates de tournée :

•  March 27 and 28 KANAL – Centre Pompidou, Brussels (BE) REPORTED
• April 16 and 17 Assab One, Milan (IT) DELAYED
• April 28th and 29th MACBA Museu d’Art Contemporani de Barcelona (ES)
• May 8 and 9 Festival Revolve Fiction, Köttinspektionen Dans, Uppsala (SE) REPORTED
• June 17 Festival Lattitudes Contemporaines, Lille (FR)
• July 8 Festival de la Cité, Lausanne (CH)
• October – November NAVE, Santiago de Chile (CL) Casa do Povo, São Paulo (BR), Festival Contemporâneo de São Paulo (BR), Buenos Aires Dance Festival (AR) REPORTED
• December 7 and 8 Les Inaccoutumés, La Ménagerie de Verre, Paris (FR)