Quando la donna è una guerillera
Lola Rudrauf
2023
director choreographer
A year ago, the Belgian choreographer Jan Fabre was sentenced to 18 months in prison with a conditional sentence for sexual assault, violence and humiliation of his dancers. During this trial, the civil parties, composed of twelve dancers from his company, accused him of being a tyrannical man, humiliating and practicing sexual blackmail. He is known to have repeated the formula: “No sex, no solo”.
He has always appeared as a major figure in contemporary art, even though he conveys a denigrating image of women through his works and actions.
With this performance, a reply to his solo Quando l’uomo principale è una donna (which stages a dancer becoming “woman” by getting naked to show her perfect plasticity and to spread olive oil on herself), we try to get out of a hypersexualizing, misogynistic, heteronormed and excluding look while denouncing the abuses of the choreographer. The body, her movements and her way of being filmed will not be sexualized in any way.
The camera creates a proximity with the performer. Her movements are raw and sometimes violent to express the anger that drives us.
Through this project, it is important for me to make the arts converge, in particular by including feminist and engaged literature. The French lesbian writer Monique Wittig died 20 years ago. We give homage to her with her text Les Guérrillères which accompanies the dancer in her movement of revolt.
Director/choreography : Lola Rudrauf
Dancer : Leila Miretti
DOP : Maxime Gaudet
1st assistant director/production: Emma Le Goff
2nd assistant director : Jeanne Fohr
Set design/graphism : Pierre Larrat
Colorist : Yanis Aarouf
Stylism : Arnaud Chartouni
Hair/makeup : Alice Cottet
Photo: Emma Boudon
Music : Mathieu Alinot
Voice : Julie Cregut
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director choreographer
A year ago, the Belgian choreographer Jan Fabre was sentenced to 18 months in prison with a conditional sentence for sexual assault, violence and humiliation of his dancers. During this trial, the civil parties, composed of twelve dancers from his company, accused him of being a tyrannical man, humiliating and practicing sexual blackmail. He is known to have repeated the formula: “No sex, no solo”.
He has always appeared as a major figure in contemporary art, even though he conveys a denigrating image of women through his works and actions.
With this performance, a reply to his solo Quando l’uomo principale è una donna (which stages a dancer becoming “woman” by getting naked to show her perfect plasticity and to spread olive oil on herself), we try to get out of a hypersexualizing, misogynistic, heteronormed and excluding look while denouncing the abuses of the choreographer. The body, her movements and her way of being filmed will not be sexualized in any way.
The camera creates a proximity with the performer. Her movements are raw and sometimes violent to express the anger that drives us.
Through this project, it is important for me to make the arts converge, in particular by including feminist and engaged literature. The French lesbian writer Monique Wittig died 20 years ago. We give homage to her with her text Les Guérrillères which accompanies the dancer in her movement of revolt.
Director/choreography : Lola Rudrauf
Dancer : Leila Miretti
DOP : Maxime Gaudet
1st assistant director/production: Emma Le Goff
2nd assistant director : Jeanne Fohr
Set design/graphism : Pierre Larrat
Colorist : Yanis Aarouf
Stylism : Arnaud Chartouni
Hair/makeup : Alice Cottet
Photo: Emma Boudon
Music : Mathieu Alinot
Voice : Julie Cregut