Clashes Licking
Catol Teixeira
[Switzerland / Brazil]
fri 21 Mar – sat 22 Mar 2025
Mutating dances
Catol Teixeira, a revelation at the Festival d’Avignon in 2023, explores the intimate heritage which has left its mark on his body. He does so by means of a deeply unsettling dance form, nourished by gestures from classical and contemporary dance, as well as circus. Formerly a ballet dancer in Rio, he clashes, whether in the pointe or tiptoe position, in the air, latex-bound or playing around with wigs, the various assignations imposed on him, thereby enabling him to reclaim his identity. Drawing upon his native Brazil and the history of dance, right up to the figure of Nijinsky’s Faun, his body, inhabited by ghosts from the past, resonates with the echoes of past memories, both fond and traumatic. Clashes Licking is a ballet imbibed with queer tenderness. With its indifference to norms, and imperviousness to all forms of prejudice, it is an ode to metamorphoses.
See Catol Teixeira
with Arrebentação on 25th & 26th march
Childcare service
Saturday 22th march
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Encounter with Catol Texeira, choreographer of Clashes Licking and Sophie Mano Avril, teacher and researcher in women’s history and gender sociology
Association UÀ
Conception et performance
Catol Teixeira
Création lumière
Alessandra Domingues
Création son
Sandar Tun Tun
Costumes
Auguste de Boursetty
Suivi conceptuel
Fabian Barba
Regard extérieur
Dominique Gilliot
Production
Rabea Grand
Diffusion
Jérôme Pique
©Photo
edenleviam
friday, March 21 at 19h00
saturday, March 22 at 19h00
Tarif B
-18 ans 10 €
18 -30 ans 12 €
+30 ans 18 €
+65 ans 14 €
Demandeur⋅euse d'emploi 9 €
Solidaire 6 €
Etudiant⋅e 8 €
Tarif B
-18 ans 8 €
18-30 ans 9 €
Découverte 13 €
Grands spectateurs 11 €
Demandeur⋅euse d'emploi 6 €
35 min
All ages 14 and over