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W.A.M.
We are Monchichi
Shihya Peng was born in Taiwan but lives in Paris. Marco Di Nardo was born in Naples, but lives in Berlin. How to meet when we have good reasons to avoid each other? How to get along when the ramparts are high? Which language to choose? What to do in the face of clutter caused by cultural stereotypes? What is this dance of weaving and joining, of interstice and fusion? This dance plays with cat and mouse; she works the antagonistic forces as a sculptor her subject.
Here, bodies have their irony, their desire for joy, sometimes their melancholy. Shihya Peng and Marco Di Nardo tend their bodies, like two distorting mirrors, where one discovers oneself more than one recognizes oneself. They wear, fly, fall, do not support each other, then get up and walk together.
We guess an immersed fable, an underground fiction, a dance with universal reach in sequence, accompanied by fragments of texts (Fabrice Melquiot, writing on the set). The two performers seek in a gesture, a leap, a race, a memory of childhood, a country to live with the other, with others. Dance of battle for harmony.
With humor, We are Monchichi speaks to all the audience and questions the multiple identities that we carry in us, as well as the way the other can come to shake them up.
Source: Maison de la Danse de Lyon
