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“People reject us and don’t realize it”: hemiplegic dancer, Jeanne defends her disability

2024-02-17T12:31:14.053Z

Highlights: Jeanne Borgel, 23, a hemiplegic from birth, wants to become a professional dancer. She will present her dance solo this Sunday at the El Duende theater in Ivry-sur-Seine. The dancer is preparing her twenty-minute solo entitled “So what?’ », which she presents this Sunday. “People reject us and don’t realize it,” says Jeanne Borgel. ‘I’m not afraid to be myself,’ she says.


This Sunday, Jeanne Borgel will present her dance solo on stage. At 23, hemiplegic from birth, she wants to become a professional dancer


“Presence on stage, you know, it’s the throat, the look and the openness, raise your head,” says Mylène Venturini to her student, Jeanne Borgel.

The 23-year-old young woman is warming up this Thursday at the end of January on the floor of the Micadanses room, near the Pont Marie, in Paris.

The dancer is preparing her twenty-minute solo entitled “So what?”

», which she presents this Sunday at the El Duende theater in Ivry-sur-Seine.

The young woman places herself on the ground, in a fetal position.

At the first notes, the body contracts and relaxes, sags, contracts again.

She gets up, falls down.

We will see her get up, become angry, wake up, take a series of tumbles... Flourish.

This choreography traces its history.

Jeanne is disabled.

Victim of an in utero stroke which left her right-sided hemiplegic and subject to persistent epilepsy.

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Source: leparis

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