Nadia Beugré: Quartiers Libres Revisited

“[Beugré] knows how to knock the air out of people. She’s wild, like the wind.” —New York Times

The promise of personal freedom beckons. A planetary plague of waste threatens to smother. In an unbridled experience that bends the boundaries between performer and audience, the iconoclastic choreographer Nadia Beugré commands the stage, piled high with disposed plastic water bottles, and roams beyond it. This expanded version of Beugré’s solo Quartiers Libres (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.

This performance is an immersive movement experience guided by Beugré. It takes place on the McGuire stage with limited seating.