Film-Screening of PoLy-FleXion, a film re-performing feminine diagonals
PS Alum Naïma Mazic (M.A. '20) presents her thesis project PoLy-FleXion, a film re-performing feminine diagonals, at this year's Living Away Fest.
(How) do diagonals - created between and by body parts - perform femininity? Slanted looks, tilted heads, tangent necks, twisted bodies, polyrhythms; I question an imposition of diagonal lines on the female body that might represent the projection, eroticization and fetishization of a desired strangeness, a mystified seductiveness into a ritual of submission. Through choreographic analysis and dance practice, performing artists and choreographer Naïma Mazic wants to reclaim and re-signify the gesture of feminine diagonals, embody them, own them, transform them. Mazic tries to "queer" these deciphered lines through a glissando, giving them a chance to re-orient our lines of sight across identity, and to perform through any()body.
With "PoLy-FleXion," Mazic has created an interactive score that, through the use of the diagonals in the body, gives us the possibility to explore ideas around the classical representation of femininity. Online participants will be invited to take a selfie choosing one of the positions they have explored. Those images will be added to an archive of the performance.
ARTISTS
Concept/Choreography/Performance: Naïma Mazic
Video Editing: Lola Drubigny
Music/ Composition: Daniel Rodier
Cinematography: David Czinczoll
Artistic Advice: Ann Pelligrini, William Ruiz Morales, Barbara Browning, André Lepecki
Naïma Mazic (n ï m company), a dancer and choreographer from Vienna, founded the association more2rhythm
and the n ï m company in 2016. She has an MA in Performance Studies from NYU TISCH, has been resident choreographer at K3 Tanzplan/Kampnagel and studied at P.A.R.T.S. in Brussels, the Reykjavik Academy of Arts and MUK in Vienna. She was part of ImPulsTanz DanceWeb and of the HipHop Continuum at Jacob’s Pillow. Her work is based on the rhythmic relationship between dancers and jazz musicians, replenished by femininity and sensuality.
Living Away Fest is a socially-distanced and domestic live arts festival that integrates a mix of online and offline activities. Living Away Fest will be looking into ways to interact with each other, to be close to each other even in the ongoing situation. Living Away will present works from a diverse group of artists, mostly women, and from an array of nine different nationalities.