Tamara Alegre

Élie Autin

Cuba

Malik Nashad Sharpe

Marga Alfeirão

Lustholmen: NX FUIMO

NX FUMIO

Photo: Gaïa Lamarre.

Th 8.6.2023, 18:00-19:00, MDT Stage

Th 8.6.2023, 22:00-23:00, MDT Stage

"NX FUIMO" is a choreographic spell, a trajectory through thresholds of alienation, intensity, connection and resistance. The second piece of a triptych initiated with "FIEBRE" (2018), "NX FUIMO" experiments with embodiment practices and ideas around sexual organs, erotic unions, and the cohabitation of complex emotions and self-pleasure. 

in slang ‘nos fuimos’ is an expression which announces a departure that has already started or already gone. here, "NX FUIMO" is the result of the radical fiction-ing of bodies through the sound vibrations and the wind in our cloacas (the same channel that connects all the vital functions related to the lower abdomen). here, dance becomes both a purge and a space for mutual support, connection and contamination triumph.

"NX FUIMO" is based on the importance of teamwork and mutual aid. it questions and disrupts structural patterns linked to the idea of the singular author. the work is strongly inspired by and connected to Dancehall and aims to make meaningful connections/exchanges with that dance scene/culture. 


** the "NX FUIMO" team have removed capital letters from this text, following Afro-feminist literary currents (bell hooks, tatiana nascimento), with the aim of continuing to write using non-hierarchical and non-obedient language.

Tamara Alegre

Tamara Alegre (IC/CH)
she/they

Tamara Alegre works with dance and choreography. Born in Gran Canaria, they studied European Business and Psychology and worked as an underground music curator, dj and tour manager until 2016.

In 2018, she obtained an MA in Choreography at DOCH, Stockholm and premiered FIEBRE, co-signed since 2019, with Lydia Östberg Diakité, Marie Ursin, Nunu Flashdem and Célia Lutangu. The work has been presented in several venues in Europe and won the Young Choreographer's Award in 2021.Their research revolves around sensual embodiments, fictions on sexuality/sexual organs and liminal physical states as choreographic tools. Her works are embodied and charged with resistance, intensity, self-pleasure and the power of dancing together.

Tamara has a growing passion for Dancehall and questions how to position themselves as a white person having access to black culture. As well as how to navigate between their work and Dancehall. The combination of working as a dancer, making work, hosting workshops and being involved in collaborative practices is essential for her.

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Élie Autin

Élie Autin (she/her) is a model, dancer and artist. Autin studied contemporary dance at the Manufacture HES-SO in Lausanne. Directly after obtaining her diploma, Autin worked on various artistic creations and productions within theatre, dance and performance as a performer, but also as creator and co-creator. Autin has worked with Tamara Alegre, Marvin M’Toumo, Natasza Gerlach, Caner Teker, Juliette Uzor, Nagi Gianni, Alexandre Doublet among others. Recently she exhibited her first sculpture installation at a group exhibition at La Rada in Locarno, Switzerland and is now starting to develop artistic work in new directions.

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Cuba

Cuba (she/her) is a multidisciplinary dancer and singer based in Alicante. Beginning with an urban dance training, she specialised in Twerk and joined the Twerk Up collective. She became a teacher of this practice and subsequently collaborated with multiple artists such as Kid Keo, Kalash Krimiel, Jedet and others on video clips and during tours. Cuba also works as a stripper in Miami and is currently a dancer for the international tour of Karol G.

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Malik Nashad Sharpe

Malik Nashad Sharpe (they/him) is an award-winning choreographer and movement director known for his provocative and formally engaging performance works that address themes of violence, alienation, horror, melancholia, and the horizon. He frequently choreographs under his alias, Marikiscrycrycry. He has received commissions and shown his work at venues and festivals across theU.K., Europe, and Canada, and is currently an Associate Artist at The Place and a studio resident of Somerset House Studios. He has held artistic residencies at Sadlers Wells, Barbican, Performance Situation Room, Dance4, Duckie, and Tate Modern.

He holds a BA in Experimental Dance with highest honours from Williams College and a certificate in Contemporary Dance from Trinity Laban Conservatoire for Music and Dance, where he won the Simone Michele Prize for Outstanding Choreography. In 2019, he was named a Rising Star in Dance by Attitude Magazine and in 2022, he was featured on the Forbes 30 under 30 list for his unique and pervasive choreographic achievements. He currently lives in London and is a guest professor in dance and performance at the Stockholm University of Arts in Sweden.

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Marga Alfeirão

Marga Alfeirão (Lisbon,1994) uses media to carve safe-spaces for the exploration of intimacy and sexuality through dance and performance. Heavily influenced by dance-genres and sound textures from the african diaspora disseminated through Lisbon’s social tissue, she attempts an active claim of womanhood, making room for lesbian sensualities.

LOUNGE was awarded the Young Choreographers Prize in 2023, Impulstanz. Currently she is developing her new work on cheesiness, geographies and heartbreak with dancers Myriam Lucas, Mariana Benengue and herself, dj's Vanyfox and Shaka Lion and writers Filipa da Rocha Nunes and Candice Nembhard to premiere in December.

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Music

Dinamarca & Talisto (with a remix of Throat by Gage) + various remix: Soraya Lutangu Bonaventure + final edits and one track from An early 2K20 post-club experience: GOLCE

Costume Design

Abrenos Tanga

Costumes research

Giulia Essyad

Scenography

Ceylan Östürk

Makeup

Chaïm Vischel Koregrafisk

Choreography advice

External eye

Sound and tech

Celine Ribeiro Castro, Sel Dir Melaizi

Presentation text

Valentina D'avenia

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Photos and video work

Gaïa Lamarre

Production and administration

Dylan Huido

Co-production

Arsenic (Lausanne), MDT Moderna Dansteatern (Stockholm)

Support

Ville de Lausanne, Loterie Romande, Fondation SIS

Special thanks to

Eytana Acher, Ali-Eddine Abdelkhalek, Manu Amina

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