i - CLIT - Latitudes Contemporaines

Mercedes Dassy

+ More info

Live performance

maison Folie Wazemmes
50min

i – CLIT

With i-clit, Mercedes Dassy delivers a vigorous and sensual solo on female desire, for a reappropriation of the body as a whole. Through dance, she questions new feminisms: their ambivalences, their weaknesses and their strengths.

In i-clit, the question of the female body occupies a central place. I-clit is revealed in several canvases and themes that follow one another, like paragraphs of a written claim. Mercedes Dassy successively evokes female figures pop music, representations and appropriations of the female sex, in art and the media. She seems to want to regain control with force. I-clit is a form of manifesto on the new feminist waves, those of our time.

Biography(s)

MERCEDES DASSY (1990, Brussels) is a dancer, active in the fields of dance, theater, performance and video. In 2009, she enters the S.E.A.D. Salzburg Experimental Academy of Dance and joins a Summer Program in Tisch School of Art/Dance Department – New York University. Back to Brussels in 2012, she works with Voetvolk/Lisbeth Gruwez (AH/HA), Compagnie3637 (Eldorado, L’Enfant qui), Matej Kejzar (raive), Cie PHOS/PHOR (La compatibilité du caméléon), Lucile Charnier (L’Appel du Mutant), Valéry Carnoy (Projet Genêts), MUGWUMP, Justine Denos (APOIL), Notch company/Oriane Varak (As a Mother of Fact) and with Leslie Mannès/Thomas Thurine/Vincent Lemaître (FORCES).

Since 2015, Mercedes Dassy also started her own work with PAUSE, I – c l i t (2018), TWYXX in collaboration with the actor Tom Adjibi (2019), B4 summer (2020), Deepstaria bienvenue, a commission by the Opera in Lyon for the dancer Maeva Lassère (2020), and Pamela Chapitre 6765, a performance for the festival Actoral in Marseille (edition 2020).
In July 2018, Mercedes Dassy was awarded the Jo Dekmine prize for promising creations and artists by Théâtre des Doms, in Avignon.

Mercedes Dassy is actually working on a new choreographic project, RUUPTUUR, a creation with four dancers planned for 2021-22.

Credits

Distribution :

Choreography/interpretation: Mercedes Dassy

Dramaturgy/external view : Sabine Cmelniski

Sound creation : Clément Braive

Set design / light creation : Caroline Mathieu

Costumes / set design : Justine Denos

Delegated production: Théâtre La Balsamine

Distribution : Arts Management / Agency (AMA)

Coproduction : Théâtre La Balsamine, Charleroi danse

Mentions & credits :

With the help of the Fédération Wallonie-Bruxelles, Service de la danse, the SACD, Project(ion) Room, the B.A.M.P, the Théâtre Océan Nord, Friends with Benefits.

Tour dates :

I – Clit