Latifa Laâbissi shows and dismantles the very fabric of politics – its social, sexual and cultural borderlines. She draws up a chart including a flag, a face, a voice – a portrait of otherness in which the camouflage is used as a kind of decoding maneuver. We see a line of symbols taken from troubled waters, passed through a filtering of perversion, subversion, laughter and grimace. There are the murmurs of voices, from a time where the humming of a song threatened. Voices of the mute, the silenced, the patronized, the pointed-at-with-fingers. A part of DANSE: A French-American Festival of Performance and Ideas.

The performance of Self Portrait Camouflage performed by Latifa Laâbissi is part of DANSE: A French-American Festival of Performance and Ideas New York City, May 1^st-18^th, organized by the Cultural Services of the French Embassy in the United States

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With additional support from Institut français, Spectacle Vivant en Bretagne, and FUSED (French U.S. Exchange in Dance), a program of the New England Foundation for the Arts' National Dance Project, the Cultural Services of the French Embassy in the United States, and FACE (French American Cultural Exchange), with lead funding from the Doris Duke Charitable Foundation, the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, and additional funding from the Florence Gould Foundation