Genre oblique

They are beautiful, charming and full of humour

- Pierre Hivernat, Les Inrockuptibles

"The terrain that, little by little, they open up between theatre, dance and music, are nervous landscapes that emanate from the body in movement. Fashioned between gestures and words, sliding from French to Spanish or Catalan, their plays cultivate the overlap of the senses, incongruous associations... From the intimate to the unknown, the dialogue allows the audience to hear the voice of the Other, his reason for being." That's how Irène Filiberti describes the dance theatre of Catalan director Roser Montlló Guberna and her French counterpart, Brigitte Seth, who since 1997, have co-managed the Compagnie Toujours Après Minuit.

In Genre Oblique, which opened on January 26 of this year at the Scène Nationale 61 d'Alençon in France, the dancer-actors are inspired by the disturbing and disturbed figure of Juana La Loca ("Joanna the Mad"), daughter of the 15th century Spanish Catholic monarchs, Isabella I of Castile and Ferdinand II of Aragon. Her behaviour was so unusual for the time that first her husband, then her father and finally her son, had her imprisoned and declared insane. The play is a homage to all those who are out-of-the-ordinary, eccentric or estranged. It is the choreographed theatre of a mental state, of a genre which relates neither to health nor to illness but instead a genre which is oblique.

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