Two women fused together swing back and forth, entangled in their complicit intimacy. They are every woman and are protected through their connivance towards the violence of man. Their fused gestures are contoured by the rhythm of the stanzas of an ancient song: a complaint that recounts the cruelty of jealousy and the blindness of vengeance. The story becomes lost in the mad throbbing of their bodies as their gestures render the escalating violence futile…
Name / Title of the piece: Vice Versa
Company/artist: Compagnie Mossoux-Bonté
Concept and choreography: Nicole Mossoux
Direction: Nicole Mossoux in collaboration with Patrick Bonté
Performance and collaboration to choreography: Frauke Mariën, Shantala Pèpe
Music: Les anneaux de Marianson, interpretation Michel Faubert, orchestration Jérôme Minière
Sound Design: Thomas Turine
Light: Patrick Bonté
Light technician: David Jans
Assistant: Julie Goldsteinas
Special thanks / collaborations: Patty Eggerickx, Fédra, Foty, Leslie Mannès, Mikha Wajnrych
Production Mossoux-Bonté Company, with support of Les Brigittines – City of Brussels Contemporary Arts Center for Movement (Belgium), Federation Wallonie-Bruxelles, dance department and Wallonie-Bruxelles International.
Production and administration: Noémie Sonveau
Tour managing and communication: Manon Dumonceaux
Logistics and organization: Léa Maucourt
Technical direction: Jean-Jacques Deneumoustier
Trasportation grant: WBI
