W.A.M.

We Are Monchichi

Running Time: 55 min
Creation 2018
Wang Ramirez - W.A.M.

W.A.M.

We Are Monchichi

Running Time: 55 min
Creation 2018
A production for children aged 7+ and their families

Shihya Peng was born in Taiwan, but she lives in Paris. Marco di Nardo was born in Naples, but he lives in Berlin.
 
How do we come together when everything is pushing us apart?

How do we perceive one another when soaring walls surround us? What language do we choose?

How do we face the mountain of cultural stereotypes?

What is this dance of interlacing and junction, of fissure and fusion? It’s a dance of cat and mouse, a dance exploring antagonistic forces.
 
Here, bodies flirt with irony - a desire for joy, a desire for melancholy. Shihya Peng and Marco Di Nardo’s bodies transform into two distorted mirrors – uncovering more about ourselves than we thought we knew. They carry each other, fly, fall, exasperate each other, then get up and walk together.
 
W.A.M. is like a hidden fable, a secret story– a dance of universal scope – performed in sequences and accompanied with flashes of text by Fabrice Melquiot (who collaborated on the rewrite and dramaturgy). With each move, jump or chase, the two dancers search for a childhood memory, a country to live in together, or to live in with others.
A dance of combat in search of harmony.
 
With humor, W.A.M. speaks to the young and to the less young. It questions our inner multiple identities and the way they are jostled by others.
 
 

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Artistic direction, conception, choreography: Honji Wang & Sébastien Ramirez
With: Marco Di Nardo and Shihya Peng 
Text adaptation and actor direction:
 Fabrice Melquiot
Original dramaturgy: Vincent Rafis
Composition: Ilia Koutchoukov aka Everydayz /+∞
Light design: Cyril Mulon
Set design: Ida Ravn
Costumes: Honji Wang
Additional music: Bachar Mar-Khalifé / Balcoon, Carlos Gardel, Alva Noto, Nick Cave & Warren Ellis
Arrangements: Fabien Biron
Voice recording and sound arrangement: Clément Aubry
Technical Manager: Guillaume Giraudo
Executive production: Company Wang Ramirez, Clash66

Co-production
Théâtre de la Ville, Paris
Scène Nationale d’Albi
We are Monchichi received co-production support in the frame of the European Creative Pole - DRAC Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes / Pôle Danse de Lyon (Biennale de la Danse + Maison de la Danse), as well as a creation residency in Lyon.

Creation Residencies
L’Archipel, scène nationale de Perpignan
La Villette / artist residencies
Théâtre de la Ville / Les Abbesses

Support
Regional Cultural Affairs Directorate Occitanie
Regional council Occitanie / Pyrénées-Méditerranée
County council Pyrénées Orientales

Fondation BNP Paribas

With thanks to Manon Martin for the Melquiot - Wang Ramirez artistic introduction.

Agenda

W.A.M
25—26 February 2024
La ferme du Buisson February 25, 2024 at 4 p.m. February 26, 2024 at 10 a.m. and 2:30 p.m. With Shihya Peng and Marco Di Nardo
Noisiel, France
W.A.M
27—28 February 2024
La Cigalière February 27, 2024 at 2:30 p.m. February 28, 2024 at 4:30 p.m. With Shihya Peng and Marco Di Nardo
Sérignan, France
W.A.M
01 March 2024
Théâtres des Aspres March 1, 2024 at 10 a.m. and 8:30 p.m. With Shihya Peng and Marco Di Nardo
Thuir, France
W.A.M
05 March 2024
Théâtre des quatre saisons March 5, 2024 at 2:30 p.m. and 8:15 p.m. With Shihya Peng and Marco Di Nardo
Gradignan, France
W.A.M
07—08 March 2024
Théâtre de l’Onde March 7, 2024 at 2:30 p.m. March 8, 2024 at 10:00 and 7:30 p.m. With Shihya Peng and Marco Di Nardo
Velizy, France