In her first work as a choreographer, international whacking icon Mounia Nassangar explores the ability of dance to take over from speech when words are stuck.
DATE: oct 29
TIME: 19.00
DURATION: 45 min
In collaboration with Malmö Dance Week
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In her first work as a choreographer, international whacking icon Mounia Nassangar explores the ability of dance to take over from speech when words are stuck.
Waacking, originally written “Whacking” has its roots in the 1970s in Los Angeles as a dance style of the LGBTQ disco scene. At a time when queer people were predominantly invisible and stigmatised, waacking offered them a platform for expression and visibility. The style developed from so-called punking, a reinterpretation of the pejorative term ‘punk’, and is characterised by dynamic, accentuated arm movements to the beat of the music.
In STUCK, five dancers approach waacking in their own individual way, with the urgency of dance and expression that resists all oppression. In STUCK, dance becomes a means of transforming inner and outer constraints into freedom and self-determination and transcending language.
Mounia Nassangar
Choreographer
A leading figure in whacking in France and internationally, Mounia Nassangar is a choreographer, dancer, actress, model, DJ, event producer and director of her own dance company.
Dancing since the age of 5, she went through popping, locking, new style, house dance, dancehall and street jazz before specializing in whacking. In 2018, Mounia was revealed to the general public thanks to Jean-Paul Gaultier’s Fashion Freak Show at the Folies Bergère and Gaspar Noé’s film Climax, which won an award at the Directors’ Fortnight at the 2018 Cannes Film Festival.
In 2019, she creates Oui, et vous? a whacking performance with Ma Dame Paris collective (created by Sonia Bel Hadj Brahim, Josepha Madoki and Mounia Nassangar). In 2022, she choreographed the SMS video for Aya Nakamura, in which she appeared, and acted as movement director for Kelela. In 2023, she can be seen dancing in Travis Scott’s MODERN JAM video.
As an event producer, she organizes the Waack in Paris festival at Gaîté Lyrique, Carreau du Temple, Nuit Blanche Paris and Defected Croatia. She was also assistant choreographer on Lancôme’s Idôle campaign and has collaborated with brands such as Tommy Jeans (in social media) and Jaeger-Le Coultre (for the Master campaign).
As a model, Mounia Nassangar has embodied the Evian x Balmain, Jean Paul Gaultier’s Scandal and MAC Cosmetics campaigns. She lends her face to Erborian, of which she is one of the muses, and has walked the catwalk for designer Burc Akyol. In 2023, she founded her own dance company, cie.nassangar, in which she is created STUCK in 2024. IG: @Mounia_Nassangar
CREDITS
Choreography: Mounia Nassangar
Interpretation: Suzanne Degennaro, Serena Freira, Oumrata Konan, Nicole Kufeld, Carla Parcianello
Assistant choreographer and role-taker: Sofia Staníc
Beatmaker : Mac L’Arnaque
Set design, lights: Xavier Lescat
Costume & stylism: Lydie Tarragon, Mounia Nassangar
Sound designer: Lucie Béguin
A creation by Cie Nassangar
Deputy production: collectif FAIR-E / CCN de Rennes et de Bretagne. An association that receives grants from the Ministry of Culture. (Direction régionale des Affaires culturelles / Bretagne), the city of Rennes, the Regional of Brittany and Ille-et-Vilaine Departement (FR).
Coproduction: CCN-Ballet national de Marseille in the framework of Accueil studio / ministère de la Culture, La Villette – Paris, La Place – Paris
Support: Ville de Rennes in the framework of Appel à projet Accueil en résidence artistique.
