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In association with Centre Wallonie-Bruxelles
The Blue Hour - Benjamin Kahn (Dance)
Literature ball (Performance)
Les Inapproprié.e.s (DJ Set)
September 23 — 8:00 p.m. to 0:00 p.m.
Laboratoires d'Aubervilliers
10€ to 15€
For the closure of the festival at the Laboratoires d’Aubervilliers, Benjamin Kahn opens with a dance performance followed by a literature ball by Christine Aventin, Estelle Benazet Heugenhauser, Gorge Bataille, Marouane Bakhti and Véronique Hubert. The evening ends in a DJ set of the Inapproprié.e.s.
© Pierre Gondard
Benjamin Kahn - The Blue Hour
The Blue Hour is the last piece of the choreographer Benjamin Kahn’s trilogy after “Sorry, But I Feel Slightly Disidentified…” and “Bless the sound that saved a Witch like me”. Performed by Théo Aucremanne, this solo captures a seizing moment when the nocturnal animals are silent and diurnal ones are not yet awake. The suspended time refers to our society at the crossroad of ideology and ecology. Our eyes adapted to the darkness are red for the irreversible present and not ready yet to visualize a possible future.
Dancer and choreographer, Benjamin Kahn is artist recognized by the Fédération Wallonie de Bruxelles. He studied theatre at the University of Aix-en-Provence and the Conservatoire in Rennes and is a graduate of the École Supérieure des Arts du Cirque in Belgium. He considers dance/choreography as powerful political tools and is particularly interested in the construction and deconstruction of perception on individual and collective bodies.
Conception, artistic direction: Benjamin Kahn / Creation, performance: Théo Aucremanne / Dramaturgy: Youness Anzane / Lighting design: Jan Fedinger / Sound design: Gagi Petrovic / Sound engineering: Louis Daurat / Executive production: Les Halles de Schaerbeek / Production: Léonard Degoulet / Distribution: Sandrine Barrasso / Coproduction and residencies: KLAP Maison pour la danse, Festival de Marseille, Les Halles de Schaerbeek / Studio loan: Studio Thor, with the support of Compagnie Thor & Thierry Smits
In association with Onda
Christine Aventin © Zones Editions
Literature Ball
Invited by the Jerk Off Festival, the Centre Wallonie Bruxelles deploys at the Laboratoires d'Aubervilliers its Literature Ball around queer writings. Christine Aventin (Feminispunk, Zones, 2021) of Estelle Benazet Heugenhauser (The Perfect Regime, Rotolux press, 2023), Gorge Bataille (Feverish Plebeian, ed. of the common, 2022) and Marouane Bakhti (How to Get Out of the World, New editions of awakening, 2023) dialogue with the sound creation of the multi-disciplinary artist Véronique Hubert for a vibrant evening.
Christine Aventin comes from countryside but she had been to university. She is dyke but she flees the queer jet-set. She is intellectual but she is also physical. She does not believe in merit but she is a hard worker.
Estelle Benazet Heugenhauser is a Franco-Austrian author. Born in 1985, she grew up in the suburbs of Paris. Her texts depict bodies experiencing each other. Desire, hunger, expenditure generate action and metabolize the exercise of power. His writing work combines theory and fiction.
Poet and performer, Gorge Bataille is a graduate of the School of Fine Arts in Lyon and got trained in alternative circles. She works a critical and pirate prose that mixes social introspection, manifestos, political reflections and love poems. She builds transgressive fictions borrowed from identity disorder, class struggles and speculative gesture.
Marouane Bakhti is a journalist and author. Arriving in Paris for bakery training, he ended up writing articles for various cultural magazines and posing as a model for fashion brands. A graduate in history from the University of Paris-Sorbonne (2018-2022), he has been a journalist for the culture magazine Mouvement since 2022. How to get out of the world (2023) is his first novel.
Maximalist, Véronique Hubert's aesthetic plays with excessiveness. Her works give a sensation of surplus by accumulating and repeating images, phrases and gestures.
© Samuel Carnovali
Les Inapproprié.e.s
Les Inapproprié.e.s is a duo of disc jockeys mixing sounds and images, sometimes accompanied by companions. Solo and ping-ponging, this two-headed, wacky entity offers a shared moment of festivity. Eccentric and mobile, they deploy an irony full of surprises dear to theorist Donna Haraway. Magnificent outsiders, they are never where you expect them to be. Véronique Hubert and Frank Lamy met in Tours at the beginning of the 21st century. The two got together and organized the "Pretext" evenings, where clubbers and creators of all stripes met. Les Inapproprié-e-s (their new stage name since 2019) will take you on a wild ride (or not, we'll see...).