Joséphine Auffray created this solo during her last year of bachelor studies at Laban School in London for her final choreography show. In this solo, Joséphine deals with identical questions through a feminist lens. MIMOWERK is a journey through multiple alter-egos drawing a self-portrait. The self-portrait form attends the presentation of our own self, ‘I’, but nevertheless always mirrors others, unmasking multiple issues regarding social norms and expectations.

 

" Always having had an obsessive pleasure in dressing up and acting out as different characters while being in my own environment: my room, I decided to use it as a starting point for research. My room felt like an experimental laboratory far from any fears. Perhaps I had spatial restrictions but certainly no boundaries when it came to dare to push unknown doors. My main tool of work was my video camera, I could analyse my self-image and behaviours by watching the videos made during my journey into defining the persona sessions. " 

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" MIMOWERK is an inside scream loudly extracted to the outside, a confrontation, a manifestation, a denunciation, a call. It makes me believe; it pushes me to experiment with myself and be louder and louder, bringing dreams and nightmares to a fantasy reality." 

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" Punk culture has been essential throughout the research as it helped my awakening of my inside scream: ANGER. "
 

CONCEPT & CHOREOGRAPHY: JOSÉPHINE AUFFRAY

Performance: JOSÉPHINE AUFFRAY

MENTORING: ellen van schuylenburch