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On the 10^th April 2024 at 6pm Nicole Mossoux will be talking to Anna Ivanova about visual theatre and The Great He-Goat in particular. The meeting, organised by the French Institute in St Petersburg, will take place on Zoom with simultaneous translation into Russian (and broadcasted live on social networks and Youtube). For more information.

From the 14^th until the 29^th March, Nicole Mossoux will be working with Frédéric Dussenne's drama class from the Arts² Conservatoire de Mons, on an exploration of stage presence, the relationship between the living and the inanimate, between distance and embodiment, acting and movement, in the complexity and depth of being on stage.

The Compagnie Mossoux-Bonté would like to invite a few performers from the living arts scene to discover its modes of research, improvisation and composition during a free workshop with a dozen participants.

The work will involve formulating languages that take account of the complex relationships between movement, presence and the intentions that gave rise to them.

The workshop, given by Patrick Bonté and Nicole Mossoux, will take place on 15, 16 and 17 May, from 10am to 6pm, in the Compagnie's studio in Brussels. It’s free and it’s in French.

If you are interested, please get in touch with Manon Dumonceaux by sending a CV, a motivation letter and video links to your work: diffusion.manon@mossoux-bonte.be

Deadline for applications: 17 March 2024

Each candidate will be contacted by the end of March about their selection.

Two meetings will be held at the Delta in Namur prior to the performance of The Great He-Goat on 3 February. On the 31^st January at 6pm, Patrick Bonté will give a talk about entitled The stage and the visual arts: hybrid forms and new languages as part of the 'Parole donnée' series. And on the 1^st February at 2.30pm, the art historian Vincent Cartuyvels will tell us more about Goya, the sublime and horrified witness of his time. Both will be held in French. 

Starting from April, if you're sending postcards from Belgium, check out for a picture of Noli me tangere on your stamp.

The Company, alongside Sidi Larbi Cherkaoui, Anne Teresa de Keersmaeker, Michèle Noiret and Alain Platel, will be part of a special edition of stamps that bpost will dedicate to Belgian contemporary dance.

The Company is working on a new production. Ophelia-s will see the light of day in Charleroi Danse on the 10-11^th November 2023 and later be performed at the Théâtre les Tanneurs in Brussels between the 28^thNovember and the 2^nd December 2023, as well as at the Escher Theater in Luxemburg on the 8^th December 2023.

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This summer 2023, two of our productions will be performed outside. Join us at the Tchafornis festival in Engis on the 1st July for Nunakt, as well as on the 6-7th July at MIMOS festival in Périgueux for the urban walk act, La visite, that is programmed alongside Les Arrière-Mondes. 

On the 14-15^th June 2023, we will be welcoming in residency the multidisciplinary performance programme of Scaphandre aux bains publics that will be presented on the 17-18^th June 2023 in a swimming pool in Brussels (rue du chevreuil 28). The event is organized and curated by Lucie Derdour and Marilou Guyon.

On the 25^th May 2023, Paul Piris will be discussing Twin Houses et The Great He-Goat at the 2^nd international Puppetplays conference in Montpellier.
It will be possible to attend the event through videocall.

Since January 2023, the Company is delighted to also be able to give dance workshops for children with autism or other developmental disorders at the Univers du Petit Prince school in Marcinelle thanks to the support of Charleroi danse and of the PECA.

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Les Arrière-Mondes will be performed on the 16th May in Nürnberg as part of the biennial programme. Join us to celebrate 30 years of collaboration, our participation in 12 editions with 14 different productions. 

The Company's administrative team has moved its office into the Théâtre les Tanneurs. 

On the 6^th March 2023, Taylor Lecocq and Nicole Mossoux will be leading a workshop around the production Les Arrière-Mondes that will be performed on the 8^th March at the Théâtre des Quatre Saisons in Gradignan. 
It's open to everyone and free. 
You just need to register in advance via email (spots are limited). 

Following the performances of Les Arrière-Mondes at the Brigittines and Histoire de l'imposture at the Théâtre des Martyrs, Taylor Lecocq and Marco Torrice, who are performers in the two productions, will give a workshop to secondary school students of ARBA on the 14th February 2023 at the Brigittines in Brussels. 

Die Geisterhand will be screened in Cairo (Egypt) on the 15th January 23 at Falaki Theater and on 16th January 23 at the Italian cultural Institute as part of the Breaking Walls Dance Film Festival programme at 7.30 pm.

From the 13th to the 17th March 2023, the Company will host in residency with artistic accompaniment Jan Jedenak for the creation of his next production, Untiefe, that will première on the 14th April 2023 at the Westflügel in Leipzig.

In the context of the interdisciplinary project ‘dialogue between the arts’, the Company will be giving a workshop at the lycée Flaubert school in Rouen on the 12-16^th December 2022 echoing the performance of The Great He-Goat co-hosted on the 20^th January by CDN Normandie-Rouen and Le Rive Gauche in Saint-Etienne-du-Rouvray.

After over two years of waiting, we will eventually be performing Whispers at the Westflügel on the 28-29^th October, where you will also be able to catch Die Geisterhand or take part in a workshop about movement and presence taught by Nicole Mossoux from the 30^th October until the 1^st November. 

Die Geisterhand will be screened at the CINEMATEK in Bruxelles on the 30^th September 2022 as part of the 11^th international dancefilmfestival brussels (category "Belgian Beauties"). 

Rebecca Florès-Martinez, who created the wigs, masks and make-up for Les Arrière-Mondes, will be giving a workshop on the 1^st October 2022 at the Escher Theater (Luxemburg) before the performance. With her expert advice,  you will be able to create your own headdress/hairpiece and go back home with it.
The spots are limited, don't forget to tell the theater you want to participate. 

From the 10^th to the 17^th May, the video of "Les Arrière-Mondes" can be streamed at Belgium (Dance Film) Festival organized by SIDance festival and ARKO Theater, in partnership with Seoul Dance Council CID-Unesco and the Embassy of Belgium in Korea. 

The film will then be shown twice a day at Daehakro theater until the 29^th May. 

From the 11^th to the 15^th April 2022, Nicole Mossoux will be accompanying Iranian artist Sayeh Sirvani for the reprise of the production L'ivresse des profondeurs, created at the 2021-edition of Festival Mondial des Théâtres de Marionnettes de Charleville-Mézières.

The Compagnie Mossoux-Bonté is looking for a male dancer to stand in for a performer during the 2022-tours of Les Arrière-Mondes. 

Send your applications by January 2^nd 2022 to info@mossoux-bonte.be enclosing a picture, a resume and a video clip.
If you are shortlisted after a first selection based on these documents, you will be invited to an audition day on January 10^th 2022 from 1pm to 6pm.
Location: Studio l’Envers, 87 rue des Tanneurs, 1000 Brussels

From the 18^th to the 21^th June 2022, Nicole Mossoux will be giving a workshop for professional puppeteers in Turku. This research laboratory will be a step towards the creation of projects that will be presented at TIP-Fest in November 2022.