ANTONIA BAEHR & LATIFA LAÂBISSI: Cavaliers impurs

ANTONIA BAEHR & LATIFA LAÂBISSI: Cavaliers impurs

Fri 20. & Sat 21.02., 19h, TQW Hall G

"Cavaliers impurs" is a cabaret in a giant, unfolded cardboard box. Number by number, Antonia Baehr and Latifa Laâbissi, the great, unalike duo, turn the stage into a playground, celebrating the dance of menopause as well as performance art that gets out of hand.

Like Horsewomen of a Merry Apocalypse, thundering at full speed on their imaginary mounts, Latifa Laâbissi and Antonia Baehr chase from number to number in "Cavaliers impurs" ("troubled riders"). They slip from one personality into the next, trying their hand at being belly dancers, minimalist clubbers and cabaret hosts, failing as a comedy duo, cowboy tamers and a punk band without guitars. A giant cardboard box created by set designer Nadia Lauro simultaneously serves as a shelter, a prop box and a platform on which the figures conjured up by Laâbissi and Baehr are assembled and disassembled. Over the course of the eclectic sequences, the unalike duo pull out all their individual stops, twisting references and turning choreographic codes upside down. Their bodies examine the debris of an already disintegrated culture as its bewildered last witnesses.