Jolie Ngemi, Jeremy Nedd

Students on the Bachelor’s degree programme in contemporary dance at the Manufacture de Lausanne are presenting their final performance.

The artistic director of this programme is Jolie Ngemi, a dancer, choreographer and musician who now lives between Lausanne and Kinshasa and develops a dialogue between contemporary aesthetics and her Congolese roots, building bridges between cultures and imaginations. She is joined by Jeremy Nedd, a choreographer originally from Brooklyn, New York, who now lives in Basel, Switzerland. In his choreographies, he explores decoloniality and racism by incorporating street dance styles such as hip-hop and pantsula.

Jolie Ngemi
Make The Curtain Burn
Make The Curtain Burn embodies the determination and drive of the new generation, who are choosing today to shape their own way of life entirely on their own terms – to create their own world on stage. A modern world full of solidarity, passion, mutual support, vulnerability, joie de vivre, humanity and ‘no stress, just chill’. This concept means: putting an end to the fears triggered in the younger generation by the news, Google and social media. No more forbidding them from travelling here and there, to this or that country, because of war, when the reality is far from it. Today, young artists are deciding to burn away this veil of abuses, unnecessary rules and laws, in order to free themselves and open up to a new world. Their own world, which they have decided to create, surrounding themselves with love, joy, support and a deepening sense of connection with one another. These movements will also represent the culmination of extreme joy, the desire to do good, and the ecstasy of liberation.

Jeremy Nedd
Faded future / future faded: A loop of social folk dance rituals
Faded Future is a choreographic exploration of the concept of the loop – musically, physically and socially. Inspired by hip-hop, electronic music and William Basinski’s legendary “Disintegration Loops”, the piece creates a hypnotic flow of movement drawn from social, folk and newly developed dance forms. The performers act like an organic organism: synchronised, drifting apart, chaotic and then harmonious again. Between repetition, improvisation and collective dynamics, a physically intense piece unfolds about decay, transformation and new beginnings – euphoric, cathartic and hypnotic all at once.