Premiered at Aire de Jeu 2015, Les Subsistances, Lyon
Performance in English with French subtitles

For her third contribution to the Aire de Jeu festival, Maud Le Pladec has answered the invitation of Les Subsistances by inviting the performer and choreographer Okwui Okpokwasili to co-create the piece.
Hunted is an incantatory project, a recitative, in which the American performer Okwui Okpokwasili wields words, her body, texts, chants, and music by Kalevi Aho.
Invoking the figure of the witch, inspired by the mythical character of Medea, the witches of Macbeth, Mary Wigman, Valeska Gert, and Tatsumi Hijikata, or troublemakers such as Nanny or the members of the W.I.T.C.H. collective […]. Hunted is a hybrid form situated between storytelling and “neo-paganist” ritual.
Okwui Okpokwasili embodies a vocabulary rooted in folklore and political speech. A presence between reality and superstition that is embodied in Kalevi Aho’s music.

Hunted was inspired by Anna Colin’s book Witches – Hunted Appropriated Empowered Queered, which accompanies the project “Plus ou moins sorcières”, a series of exhibitions, projections, performances and conferences presented in 2012 at the Maison Populaire de Montreuil.

Filmed by: Didier Dematons
Montage: Julie Pareau