Crossing The Line Festival - Quartiers Libres Revisited

Quartiers libres (free rein) explores and reveals those peculiar spaces we are trapped in, those forbidden places where we choose to wander: spaces open to endless possibilities, spaces to surrender and allow for revelation. Twelve years after its premiere in France, Nadia Beugré revisits her emblematic solo with two emerging artists from the Ivory Coast.

Nadia Beugre:

Born in Ivory Coast, Nadia Beugré is a founding member of Béatrice Kombé’s groundbreaking, all-female dance ensemble TchéTché, with whom she toured for years to critical acclaim across Africa, Europe and North America. After Beatrice Kombé’s passing, she trained at Germaine Acogny’s École des sables in Senegal, and then joined the exerce master at the CCN de Montpellier under Mathilde Monnier’s direction.

Beugré’s body of work includes the still-touring solo Quartiers libres (2012), Legacy (2015), Tapis Rouge (2017), Roukasskass Club (2019), L’Homme rare (2020), an all-male quintet performance and the duet Filles-Pétroles (2023). Her work relentlessly explores the hidden, the disturbing, the unsettling, the margins, while celebrating the misfits.

Beugré is associate artist at the Briqueterie in Vitry-sur-Seine (2021-2023) and ICI CCN de Montpellier Occitanie (2023-2024). In 2023 she was awarded the SACD Prize for New Choreographic Talent. With Virginie Dupray, Beugré founded in Montpellier the Libr’Arts company in 2020; it serves as a platform for production, touring, training, and artistic development between France and Ivory Coast.

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