This November, iconoclastic choreographer Nadia Beugré returns to the Walker for the first time since 2012 with Quartiers Libre Revisited. In an unbridled experience that bends the boundaries between performer and audience, Beugré commands the stage, piled high with disposed plastic water bottles, and roams beyond it. This expanded version of Beugré’s solo Quartiers Libre (Free Rein), seen on the Walker stage in 2012, features the artist alongside two performers from her home country of Côte d’Ivoire. Together, they navigate spaces of restriction and possibility, exploring themes of personal freedom as a planetary plague of waste threatens.
Nadia Beugré: Quartiers Libre Revisited
Friday–Saturday, November 1–2, 8 pm
Tickets start at $35, fees included
McGuire Theater
ABOUT NADIA BEUGRÉ
Born in Ivory Coast, Nadia Beugré made her first appearance as a member of Dante Theatre in 1995. Following training at Germaine Acogny’s Ecole des sables in Senegal, she joined Ex.e.r.ce., Mathilde Monnier’s program for talented, up-and-coming choreographers at the Centre Chorégraphique National de Montpellier in 2009. She soon staged productions of her own, including the still-touring solo Quartiers libres (‘Free Rein’) in 2012. Her work merges traditional folk dances, contemporary experimental dance, and urban/hip-hop influences.
Since 2021, Beugré has been an associate artist to the Briqueterie in Vitry-sur-Seine (France) and, since 2023, an associate artist to ICI CCN de Montpellier. With Virginie Dupray, Beugré founded her own dance company in Montpellier, Libr’Arts, a platform for production, touring, and training between France and Ivory Coast.
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ACCESSIBILITY
Seating for this performance will be on the stage. The stage can be accessed by wheelchairs.
This performance contains partial nudity.
This performance contains loud sounds.
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ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
Support provided by Villa Albertine and Albertine Foundation.
The Walker Art Center’s Performing Arts programs are made possible by generous support from the Doris Duke Foundation through the Doris Duke Performing Arts Fund, Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, and the National Endowment for the Arts.
Producers Council
Performing Arts programs and commissions at the Walker are generously supported by members of the Producers Council: Christina Evans and Weston Hoard; Nor Hall and Roger Hale; Judith Brin Ingber and Jerome Ingber; Neal Jahren; King’s Fountain/Barbara Watson Pillsbury; Sarah Lutman and Rob Rudolph; Emily Maltz; Leni and David Moore, Jr./The David and Leni Moore Family Foundation; Therese Sexe and David Hage; and Mike and Elizabeth Sweeney.
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