FIFINE

FIFINE
Fifine is you, me, us... A seemingly sensible yet fragile being, riddled with doubt and battered by society. Fifine yearns to please, to seduce, to believe she's not just like everyone else—but a little more beautiful, a little more everything! Fifine symbolizes human fragility in the face of dehumanization, objectification, and the reign of appearances and illusions, sexism, and discrimination. This refined and delicate character is thrust into a merciless world that crushes her. She embodies a highly feminized image, subverted by the choreographer through derision and irony. Naïve yet peculiar, she's the eternal victim of a society that overwhelms, crushes, and attempts to confine her to a role she humorously rejects.
Fifine is destined to experience further episodes:
"As always in my creations, there's no imposition of staging onto the choreography or the character, because everything is interwoven: costumes, accessories, situations... Fifine can wander anywhere, encountering anecdotes that all resonate. This character is also an emblem of non-conformism and the revolt of the vulnerable: revolt through creativity."
Morceaux de Choix (Choice Cuts)
This first episode of Fifine was created for the cabaret "Une vraie Boucherie" (A Real Butchery), a multidisciplinary show featuring dancers, circus performers, puppeteers, and musicians, presented at the Théâtre sous les Arbres (Le Port, Réunion) in November 2014. The piece begins as a cabaret striptease, with Fifine appearing in fragments behind a butcher's table draped in black: a leg, a gloved hand... until pieces detach! Fifine sheds a leg, an arm, an eye... and even gives away her soul! The movements evoke a puppet, yet retain a powerful presence; the facial expressions are intensely evocative.

Cast & creative

Dance, Vocals, and Music: Florence Latappy
Music and Composition: David Abrousse
Fonkèr (Traditional Réunion Slam) and Text: Didier Filo
Text: Harmelle Baret
Vocals and Music: Magali Inès
Costumes/Accessories: Florence Latappy, Ariel Redingote, Students of the Beaux Arts de la Réunion.