DIALOGUE WITH SHAMS

Matthieu Hocquemiller excels in drawing portraits as sensitive as they are powerful, for which he engages performance artists on the path of their own autofiction. Throughout these meetings, a sharp and critical look focuses on social norms and singularities. DIALOGUE WITH SHAMS is the first content of a reflection, through three stories of the body, on the notion of undesirable. Here, the choreographer guides Iranian dancer Rana Gorgani in writing an imaginary dialogue with Shams, a wandering Persian mystic of the 13th century and a great figure of Sufism. The personal history of women intersects with political reflections on migratory journeys, gender relations and biculturality.