Nez Noir

Estelle Samira Borel CH
  • 16:00
  • 15:00
Informations
  • Site-specific recreation
  • Duration 45'
  • From 10 years old
  • PRM
  • Relax
  • In French
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Château de Prangins
Av. Général-Guiguer 3,
Prangins

  • This performance is presented in collaboration with Château de Prangins as part of the exhibition Colonialisme. Une Suisse impliquée (Colonialism: Switzerland Involved).
  • One hour before each performance, a guided tour is offered (included in the ticket price).
  • Your performance ticket grants free travel on TPN bus lines 805 or 811 from Nyon railway station (approximately 10 minutes journey), stopping at “Prangins, Musée national” or “Prangins, Les Abériaux”.
  • Going to Château de Prangins 
  • The performances take place outdoors and go ahead in all weather conditions.
  • The Château Café is open from 9:30 to 17:30.
  • Accessible to people with reduced mobility
  • Représentation Relax
On 15.08 : Relax performance
The performance on 16.08 will be followed by a public discussion with Estelle Samira Borel and the researcher and playwright Noémi Michel.

Estelle Samira Borel (director, performer, Black woman, Afrofeminist and prominent figure of the contemporary Swiss circus scene) centres her work on proximity with audiences, provocative social issues and risk-taking. Delicately, she intertwines intimacy and politics through the body, giving meaning and depth to acrobatics. With Nez Noir, she offers a decolonial perspective on Switzerland and, more specifically, on Valais, where she grew up.
At the crossroads of artistic forms, Nez Noir weaves together performative, circus-based and textual writing. Singular anecdotes and historical facts become entangled within a personal and highly original cartography. Balancing on a tightrope, Estelle Samira Borel knits together, and carefully unravels, the threads of her identity and of the relationship she maintains with the region known for its famous, black-nosed sheep.

This performance is presented in collaboration with Château de Prangins as part of the exhibition Colonialisme. Une Suisse impliquée (Colonialism: Switzerland Involved).

  • Estelle Samira Borel Nez Noir © Michael Hartwell

direction and performance Estelle Samira Borel costume design Sylvain Wavrant artistic collaboration Rachel Morend technical management Bastien Alvarez administration Laura Pérez Juárez creation support and residency far° Nyon, in collaboration with Château de Prangins – Swiss National Museum; Swiss Circus Art Network with Le Spot & Station Circus; Le Castrum (l’exploratoire) partners Treffpunkt Tschüdanga, Leuk; Les Halles de Schaerbeek, Brussels with support from Ville de Sion; Ville d’Yverdon-les-Bains; Pro Helvetia – Swiss Arts Council; Loterie Romande; Fondation suisse des artistes interprètes SIS; Service de lutte contre le racisme thanks to Commune de Prangins

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