(M)IMOSA, Twenty Looks or Paris is Burning at The Judson Church (M), a choreographic collaboration between Cecilia Bengolea, Francois Chaignaud, Marlene Monteiro Freitas, and Trajal Harrell, is the title given to the Medium version of Harrell’s series in five sizes, (XS) – (XL), entitled Twenty Looks or Paris is Burning at The Judson Church. The propositional departure for the series – “What would have happened in 1963, if someone from the voguing ball scene had come down to Judson Church in Greenwich Village to perform alongside the early postmoderns?” – is not addressed but reconfigured by (M)IMOSA into a encounter between these four artistic voices.
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(M)IMOSA
presentation
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The Voguing dance tradition refers to the competitive balls staged in Harlem dance halls beginning in the 1960′s. A form of social performance practiced primarily by African-American and Latino gays, transvestites, and transsexuals, voguing imitates archetypal social and gender identities through fashion, movement, and behavior. At the same historical moment, in the 1960’s, the pioneers of the postmodern dance broke with the traditional representations of classical and modern dance and sought to make dance without artifice, based in authenticity.
Inspired by Paris is Burning, the seminal documentary film about voguing; their personal research on voguing; and their collective experience as makers, the four collaborators in (M)IMOSA dare to own and share the immediate distance between themselves, between them and their inspiration, between what they portend and what they perform, and between their counteracts.
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team
Cecilia Bengolea, François Chaignaud, Trajal Harrell, Marlene Monteiro Freitas
conception & interpretation
Yannick Fouassier
lighting design
La Bourette
partner in costume design
Yannick Fouassier / Sylvain Rausa / Rui Antunes
lighting technician
Martin Trinquart / Pete Dowling
sound technician
Antoine Bernollin
adaptations, vocal coach
Jean-Michel Olivares
sound mix
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representations
(M)IMOSA
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go to the event’s website. 
2024
2024
2023
2017
2016
2015
2014
2013
09.02.2013
10.02.2013
18.02.2013
19.02.2013
28.03.2013
29.03.2013
11.04.2013
14.05.2013
24.05.2013
22.07.2013
07.09.2013
28.10.2013
30.01.2014
31.01.2014
01.02.2014
22.03.2014
23.03.2014
16.09.2014
19.11.2015
20.11.2015
13.10.2016
23.03.2017
24.03.2017
24.05.2017
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co-production & production
co-production
& production
coproductions
Le Quartz scène nationale de Brest, Chaillot — Théâtre national de la Danse Paris, CDC de Toulouse/Midi-Pyrénées, The Kitchen — New York, Bomba Suicida — Lisbonne, FUSED French US Exchange in Dance.
mandorle productions
Mandorle productions is subsidized by the Ministère de la Culture (DRAC Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes) and the Région Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes.
François Chaignaud is an associate artist at Chaillot – Théâtre national de la Danse as well as the Maison de la danse and the Biennale de la danse de Lyon.
supports
La Ménagerie de verre – Paris, Les Laboratoires d’Aubervilliers, Drac Poitou-Charentes, Institut français, Lower Manhattan Cultural Council.
special thanks
Matthieu Banvillet, Sarah Michelson, DD Dorvillier, Ben Pryor, Lasseindra Ninja, Alex Mugler, Rumi Missabu, Pascal Queneau, Archie Burnett, Javier Madrid, Matthieu Bajolet, Donatien Veismann, Miguel Bengolea, Marianne Chargois, Joao Figueira, Rio Rutzinger, Emmanuelle Huynh and Jessica Trossman.