Solo performance - 20 minutes

In this work, Artémise Ploegaerts focuses on the way with which some feminine stereotypes subtly permeate the body.
Remembering a song she used to listen as a teenager ‘Norma Jean Baker’, she reflects on the influence of French icon Jane Birkin on her movement and gait.
Her mother has been a fan of Birkin for years; and brought her to her concert and signing sessions when Ploegaerts was a young teenager. Starting from her personal memories, Ploegaerts looks at how idealised body and its gait are shaped by popular culture.