Laly
07-25-2023, 03:06 PM
The directing of a theatrical play at the famous theatre festival of Avignon, in France, displays dolls of white babies being skewed by black people. The play was greatly funded by the State.
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Laudatory presentation of the play:
"On the set, eight women. They are artists and black. They look at us before speaking and, with the utmost sincerity, lay before us their life journeys by chaining numbers out of an Afro-futurist tale Their subject? The figure of the black woman as an object of fantasies. A very distant image of their daily life in the hollow of a French society which only allows them to be at the service of others. Together, in a joyful chaos, they construct a show of truth that masterfully shatters the colonial imagination and its procession of clichés. Stubborn, racist, sexist clichés... Nothing soothing or moralizing, however. These eight warriors of performance radiate with their incredible presence this brilliant and ferocious fire that dynamites our dominant landmarks. From a frenzied dance to aerial acrobatics or a frenetic twerking session, Rébecca Chaillon, director, author and black afro-militant performer born in Montreuil, has chosen here a completely different register to upset our benchmarks: baroque humor, carnivalesque diversion and above all sorority."
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Laudatory presentation of the play:
"On the set, eight women. They are artists and black. They look at us before speaking and, with the utmost sincerity, lay before us their life journeys by chaining numbers out of an Afro-futurist tale Their subject? The figure of the black woman as an object of fantasies. A very distant image of their daily life in the hollow of a French society which only allows them to be at the service of others. Together, in a joyful chaos, they construct a show of truth that masterfully shatters the colonial imagination and its procession of clichés. Stubborn, racist, sexist clichés... Nothing soothing or moralizing, however. These eight warriors of performance radiate with their incredible presence this brilliant and ferocious fire that dynamites our dominant landmarks. From a frenzied dance to aerial acrobatics or a frenetic twerking session, Rébecca Chaillon, director, author and black afro-militant performer born in Montreuil, has chosen here a completely different register to upset our benchmarks: baroque humor, carnivalesque diversion and above all sorority."