1 rue Saint-Hélier, Rennes. Metro: Charles de Gaulle, Gares, République. Bus C1, C2, C3, 11, 54, 55, 56 — Liberté-TNB. STAR bikes: square de Kergus. Parking: Esplanade Charles de Gaulle, Place du Colombier.
Accessibility
Vilar, Serreau and Parigot rooms: hearing loops (T setting), wheelchair spaces. Devices available at the box office with ID. Sound amplification also available.
Bar
Bar/restaurant on the 1st floor, fresh, local cuisine. Tuesday-Friday lunchtime and on show evenings. Eat in or takeaway.
Whacking has its own schools. Body to body, gaze to gaze, in spaces no one thinks to call that.
Born in the 1970s in Los Angeles, within Black and Latino LTBGQIA+ communities, carried by those who recognise each other, choose each other and train one another, every gesture is a sentence, every pose a statement.
Mounia Nassangar is one of the international figures of this community. Precise, flamboyant, committed, she carries her dance with rare force, working to preserve it without freezing it, to bring it up to date without betraying it, to pass it on so that understanding is complete and the gesture is true.
For this carte blanche, she opens the Paradis room at the TNB and the TNB cinema to her community, her allies and to anyone who wants to understand what whacking is made of. No hierarchy between dancing bodies, no distinction between those who know and those who are learning. A multimedia exhibition by Muteki, the archives of STUCK from its Rennes premiere through to its international tour, the presentation of a film in progress by Kiddy Smile, talks and a DJ set to close the evening… The form is multiple because whacking culture is too. It overflows categories, refuses to be reduced to a single style or era, both a living archive and a constant invention.
An invitation to be carried along by the history of a dance that survived invisibility, and by the beauty of bodies claiming their existence.
From 2pm – multiple spaces – Free, no booking required
