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In a visual installation by Nadia Lauro
20. – 21.
FEB
2026
ANTONIA BAEHR & LATIFA LAÂBISSI
Cavaliers impurs
© Nadia Lauro
Cavaliers impurs is a cabaret in a giant, unfolded cardboard box. Number by number, Antonia Baehr and Latifa Laâbissi, the great, unalike duo, turn the stage into a playground, celebrating the dance of menopause as well as performance art that gets out of hand.
Like Horsewomen of a Merry Apocalypse, thundering at full speed on their imaginary mounts, Latifa Laâbissi and Antonia Baehr chase from number to number in Cavaliers impurs (“troubled riders”). They slip from one personality into the next, trying their hand at being belly dancers, minimalist clubbers and cabaret hosts, failing as a comedy duo, cowboy tamers and a punk band without guitars. A giant cardboard box created by set designer Nadia Lauro simultaneously serves as a shelter, a prop box and a platform on which the figures conjured up by Laâbissi and Baehr are assembled and disassembled. Over the course of the eclectic sequences, the unalike duo pull out all their individual stops, twisting references and turning choreographic codes upside down. Their bodies examine the debris of an already disintegrated culture as its bewildered last witnesses.
Time
19:00–20:00
Location
TQW Halle G
Duration
60 Min
Price
€ 28/23/14/12
Additional Information
In Arabic, German, English, French
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Artist Bio
Antonia Baehr
lives and works as a choreographer, performer, filmmaker, and visual artist in Berlin. Her pieces are characterized by a non-disciplinary approach that explores the fiction of everyday life and the fiction of theater. She collaborates with various partners and often works through alter egos or in the form of role-playing. She has participated in various group exhibitions, realized a solo exhibition at the Neue Kunstverein Gießen (2012) as well as several publications. Her most recent productions include Misses und Mysterien (2015) with Valérie Castan, Normal Dance und Röhrentier (2016), Da war ich noch nie in meinem ganzen Leben (2017) with N. Hülcker, EXIT (2018), Consul and Meshie (2018) with Latifa Lâabissi, Die Hörposaune (2022) mit Jule Fierl, Silver Butch and Baby Butch with Bettina Blanc Penther (2024), among many others.
Latifa Laâbissi
In her work, Latifa Laâbissi brings different perspectives beyond the stage to the stage, creating an anthropological landscape of stories, characters, and voices. Dance “codes” are disrupted by unruly bodies, alternative stories, and collages of material marked by time. Her works include Self Portrait Camouflage (2006), Loredreamsong (2010), Écran Somnambule, La Part du Rite (2012), Pourvu qu’on ait l’ivresse (2016) with Nadia Lauro, Consul et Meshie (2018) with Antiona Baehr, White Dog (2019), and Le même corps, jamais pareil. D’après Esther Ferrer (2025). She has also collaborated with Pauline Boudry and Renate Lorenz, Manon de Boer, and Marcelo Evelin, among others. Laâbissi has been an associate artist at the Théâtre National de Bretagne since 2021 and is the artistic director of Extension Sauvage.
figureproject.comNadia Lauro
As a visual artist and set designer, Nadia Lauro has been developing her work for several decades in various contexts. She has conceived set designs, environments, and visual installations with strong dramaturgical power, thus generating new ways of seeing and being together. Nadia Lauro has collaborated with numerous international choreographers, including Vera Mantero, Benoît Lachambre, Frans Poelstra, Emmanuelle Huynh, Antonija Livingstone, Jonathan Capdevielle, Marion Siéfert, Kate MacIntosh, and Jennifer Lacey, to name a few. She received a New York Dance and Performance Award, The Bessie, for her visual installation in $Shot.
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Credits
Concept, performance Antonia Baehr & Latifa Laâbissi Music, sound design Carola Caggiano Concept, realization visual installation Nadia Lauro Realization visual installation Marie Maresca, Charlotte Wallet Light design Eduardo Abdala Vocal coach Dalila Khatir Figures Antonia Baehr, Latifa Laâbissi, Nadia Lauro Internship Esteban Capron, Suet Wa Tam, Johan Boyer Production Alexandra Wellensiek (make up productions), Fanny Virelizier & Damien Krempf (Figure Project)
Coproduction HAU Hebbel am Ufer (Berlin), Le TNB – Centre européen théâtral et chorégraphique (Rennes), Centre chorégraphique national de Caen en Normandie, within the framework of l’Accueil-studio, the French Ministry for Culture and Communication, Festival d’Automne (Paris), Fonds Transfabrik – German-French Fund for Performing Arts Funded by Hauptstadtkulturfonds and the Senate Department for Culture and Community, the French Ministry of Culture, DRAC Brittany. Supported by the NATIONALES PERFORMANCE NETZ International Guest Performance Fund for Dance, funded by the Federal Government Commissioner for Culture and the Media With the support of La Ménagerie de Verre (Paris) within the framework of Studiolab and Theaterhaus Berlin. Thank you to Wolfgang Müller, Yves-Noël Genod, Bettina Knaup, Maja Zimmermann, Dan Belasco-Rogers, Javier Blanco Núñez, Gilles Amalvi
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Events
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FEB
20
19:00 – 20:00
Antonia Baehr & Latifa Laâbissi
Cavaliers impurs
Time
19:00 – 20:00
Location
TQW Halle G
Duration
60 Min
Price
€ 28/23/14/12
Additional Information
In Arabic, German, English, French
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FEB
21
19:00 – 20:00
Antonia Baehr & Latifa Laâbissi
Cavaliers impurs
Time
19:00 – 20:00
Location
TQW Halle G
Duration
60 Min
Price
€ 28/23/14/12
Additional Information
In Arabic, German, English, French
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