Nov 22Nov 25, 2023
Wen Hui
New Report on Giving Birth • French première
A WORK CROSSING GENERATIONS, AND ASSERTING EVERY WOMAN’S RIGHT TO CONTROL HER OWN BODY.
In 1999, Wen Hui presented her choreographic poem Report on Giving Birth, based on interviews with women speaking about the experience of childbirth. It was at a time of strict enforcement of China’s One-Child Policy. Twenty-five years later, the state still intervenes in a woman’s right to choose, this time calling on women to have more than one child. Wen Hui has therefore gone back to the issue as a universal case epitomizing the plight of women, bringing together audio and visual records, plus dance and discussions with women. The goal is dialogue in action, based on situations experienced and feelings shared.
PERFORMANCE IN CHINESE, ITALIAN, PERSIAN, THAI & ENGLISH. FRENCH SUPERTITLES.
Overtitled in French
Living Dance Studio
Original idea & choreography
Wen Hui
Dramaturgy Alexandra Hennig Music Matthias Engelke Video Rémi Crépeau Light Design Tanja Rühl assisted by Matthias Rieker Advice Zhang Zhen With Alessandra Corti, Patscharaporn Krüger-Distakul, Parvin Saljoughi, Wen Hui
PRODUCTION Künstlerhaus Mousonturm, Frankfurt am Main – Living Dance Studio, Beijing. COPRODUCTION Hellerau, Dresden – PACT Zollverein, Essen – Théâtre de la Ville-Paris – Festival d’Automne à Paris - HAU Hebbel am Ufer, Berlin.
WITH SUPPORT FROM the framework of the Alliance of International Production Houses and by the NATIONALES PERFORMANCE NETZ. Co-production fund for dance financed by the Federal Government Commission for Culture and Media
WITH THE ASSISTANCE OF Goethe-Institut in Beijing and Munich. The original work has received project assistance from DRAC Île-de-France.
JOINTLY PRODUCED BY Théâtre de la Ville-Paris – Festival d’Automne 2023.
Wed 22 Nov 2023
8:00 PM
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Thu 23 Nov 2023
8:00 PM
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Fri 24 Nov 2023
8:00 PM
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Sat 25 Nov 2023
3:00 PM
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