Pour leur première résidence à neimënster, la compagnie théâtrale « She Goat » organisera des ateliers créatifs avec des jeunes âgés de 6 à 18 ans, pour explorer avec eux la notion de “force”.

Les metteuses en scène Shamira Turner et Eugénie Pastor créeront un espace permettant aux jeunes participants d’étudier “ce que signifie se sentir fort” et comment cela peut interagir avec leur sens de l’identité et du genre, à travers l’écriture créative, le mouvement et la musique.

Ces ateliers constitueront une partie essentielle du processus de création d’un nouveau spectacle théâtral, mêlant l’histoire, la recherche scientifique et les perspectives de différents groupes d’âge, pour réimaginer ensemble cette notion de force, à l’époque contemporaine.

She Goat est le partenariat artistique franco-anglais d’Eugénie Pastor et de Shamira Turner, basé à Londres. Praticiennes expérimentées, Shamira est animatrice au Camden Youth Theatre et Eugénie enseigne la performance contemporaine à l’University of the Arts London.

She Goat is the English-French artistic partnership of Eugénie Pastor and Shamira Turner. Based in London, and intent on radical cooperation, She Goat create and perform visually haunting, intimate performance artworks, inspired by historic aesthetics and rooted in personal experience.

In residency at neimënster 17 to 29 March 2024, She Goat will be researching and developing IRON FANTASY, a bold new theatre project about strength.

Two confrontation-avoidant gentlefolks investigate what it means to feel strong.

In search of “assertiveness”, in search of a six-pack. 

From mortal combat to medieval childbirth: we unpick the politics of strength, through live music, sweaty theatre and dream-like creative audio-description.

Dangerously ambitious and luxuriously safe. 

This is IRON FANTASY.

Who gets to be labelled ‘strong’? What does it mean to grow up and grow old shaped by the understanding that you are ‘less’ physically strong? And, working together, can we reimagine strength and what it means for us?

“Surreally funny…They use their bodies boldly, in a way that is still rare to see in women on stage.” ****The Stage on DoppelDänger.

She Goat will create IRON FANTASY through workshops with girls and gender non-conforming youths aged 6-18 and older people facing experiences of invisibility and marginalisation. We will play with what the Middle Ages could look like through the lenses of 1990s Western pop culture and the experience of growing up and growing older today.

Please find out more about She Goat online at shegoat.co.uk

Instagram: @shegoatx

Twitter: @shegoatx

WORKSHOPS AND INTERACTIVE OPPORTUNITIES FOR YOUNG PEOPLE

As part of the development of this project at neimënster, She Goat are looking to run creative workshops with young people aged 6-18.

Award-winning theatre-makers Shamira Turner and Eugénie Pastor will create a space for young participants to investigate ‘what it means to feel strong’ and how this might interact with their sense of identity and gender, through creative writing, movement and music.

Local Educators and Facilitators working with Young People, please contact Karine Bouton for more information about these workshops and organising attendance. 

Dates of neimënster residency: 18 to 28 March 2024.

Main contact for organising workshop: Karine Bouton, Karine.Bouton@neimenster.lu