From PINK WASHING, a mercantile process that uses the benevolent image of LGBTQ+ cultures and femininity to invest the capitalist market, to ROSE KITTY, a global phenomenon that has spread from Japan and childlike innocence all over the world, Pink has invaded our mores and locked them in at the same time....
Continuing their research into the themes of power and cultural identity, choreographers C.Béranger and J.Pranlas-Descours have created a powerful and immersive new opus.
PINK MATTERS brings together five women to show and hear the different voices and body states that result from the vulnerable forces of our individual and universal histories.
On the edge of testimony, words and stories become songs, then dances, cries and incantations, bringing our cracked bodies together and lifting us up to form a union.
To rise up, to arm oneself, to erect oneself.... so many actions that today, in the midst of an ebullient and worrying current events, reduce our imaginations instead of giving us a common sense of the struggles that animate and differentiate us.
Our struggles, the most difficult of which are often those that have been imposed on us in spite of ourselves, out of an obligation to survive, to move forward in the same way as others...
But can we find other ways to turn our shackles into a playground?
To desacralize our struggles?
To chant the words that imprison us?
PINK MATTERS immerses the audience in a 360° device, around an interactive work, in the testimonies and live songs of a new history of genres.
They transcend the Manichean vision of a binary world, establishing the body as a site of resistance to create a dialogue on resilience, peace and the ability to summon a collective awareness of the undeniably hybrid nature of our world today.
TAP - Théâtre Auditorium de Poitiers - Scène Nationale
Center Pompidou-Metz
Other partners in progress
Concept - Choreography
Christophe Béranger (Fr) Jonathan Pranlas-Descours (Fr)
Performance - Vocal
Yasminee Lepee - Dancer / Actress - (Cl)
Lucille Missas - Dancer / Vocalist - (Fr)
Florence Gengoul - Dancer / Vocalist (Fr)
Lito Messini - Soprano Vocalist / Actress (Gr)
Live music and composition
Julia Suero (Arg)
Visual Art
Xinhan Yú (Cn)
Lighting design
Olivier Bauer (Fr)
Dramaturgy
Georgina Kakoudaki (Gr)
Administration
Denis Forgeron (Fr)