Imagine finding yourself invaded by a multitude of beings who act through you without asking your opinion. They grab hold of one or other part of your body, creep in between your intentions and your gestures, emitting contradictory voices, strange discourses...
Twin Houses, a multiple monologue that presents Nicole Mossoux and five articulate mannequins together in such close proximity that one no longer knows who is manipulating who nor who holds power over the other.
Nicole Mossoux and Patrick Bonté’s only foray into the domain of animated forms, in Twin Houses the dancer is confronted by its doubles. Since its premiere, the performance has toured continuously across the five continents.
The performance is presented in the form of a series of short stories, at times cruel at others burlesque.  It is interspersed with black-outs, serving as memory lapses from which are born in us forces  unknown to us and out of which emerges the "Unheimlich", a disquieting strangeness.
"How to kill your double, when each strike against it multiplies and engenders a conspiracy against you, the reason for which you are ignorant of?
These beings have taken a body, your body, they know and you do not.
Who are you again? Which one among them are you?  At what point is the end of yourself?  At the very limits of your skin?  The very limits of the world?"

Credits

Concept and choreography Nicole Mossoux

Direction Patrick Bonté, Nicole Mossoux

Performer Nicole Mossoux

Music Christian Genet

Scenography Johan Daenen

Costumes Colette Huchard

Costumes fabrication Anna Tourn, Patricia Eggerickx

Mannequins Jean-Pierre Finotto assisted by Fabrice Siciliano

Light and sound mix Patrick Bonté

Stage manager Mikha Wajnrych

Stage manager David Jans
Production Cie Mossoux-Bonté in coproduction with Charleroi/Danses – Centre chorégraphique de la Fédération Wallonie-Bruxelles, l’Atelier Sainte-Anne, Bruxelles and les Brigittines, Centre d'Art contemporain du Mouvement de la Ville de Bruxelles (Belgique).

After his studies in philosophy, humanities and dramatic interpretation, Patrick Bonté wrote many texts for theatre and cinema and directed numerous theatrical productions in Brussels, Antwerp and Quebec. His desire to explore themes related to the enigma of presence through the theatre has led him to explore the  invention  of  languages,  avoiding  textual  narration,  realism  and  psychology.  With  Nicole  Mossoux, whom he met in 1985, he shares the desire to “create images for the stage that have a particular sense, in which tension reigns, a tension tied to the contradictions that nourish it, and yet do not presume to bear a definite truth”. He is also artistic director of Les Brigittines (City of Brussels Contemporary Art Centre for Movement).

Source: The Cie Mossoux/Bonté 's website

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