Dirty Closets
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Dirty Closets is a documentary performance exploring the themes of economic-sexual exchanges in a colonial context, the coming out of sex workers, and the need for collective and historical reparations expressed therein. What if the actions and voices that are being raised today were the result of more ancestral needs for justice stemming from yesterday's history?
Jamal Phoenix and Marianne Chargois, two contemporary sex workers, both have genealogical lines rooted in countries colonised by France: in the West Indies, Réunion and former Indochina. What economic and sexual intimacies were experienced by their ancestors there?
Part genealogical-biographical account, part exploration of minority life, Dirty Closets tells stories from yesterday's industrial colonial era to today's neo-colonial and neo-capitalist one.
concept and script Marianne Chargois ⎸ performance and stories Jamal Phoenix, Marianne Chargois ⎸ sound design and live performance Mona Servo ⎸ visual creation Thy Truong Minh ⎸ choreographic support Emmanuelle Vincent ⎸ set design Pierre Larauza ⎸ support/manufacture of plexiglass structure Ateliers Wauters ⎸ lighting design and video control Nicolas Marty ⎸ video creation Miguel Soll ⎸ transgenealogical research Law Cailleretz ⎸ production AWC Production ⎸ executive production atelier 210 ⎸ co-production Théâtre de la Balsamine ⎸ with the support of Fédération Wallonie-Bruxelles – Service du théâtre/danse, t.r.a.n.s.i.t.s.c.a.p.e asbl, BAMP and Kunstenwerkplaats