LA CASE BD – In her second album, selected in Angoulême, Maurane Mazars, the 29-year-old designer, gracefully illustrates the dance world. Luminous.
The Angoulême Festival hailed a true hymn to life and freedom by selecting Dance! for the race for the Golden Fauve. Maurane Mazars’ second album, his school project, celebrates daring youth, the one who bends and does not break. It features Uli, 19, studying modern dance at a prestigious German school. His appetite for musical comedy earned him bitter mockery from his classmates, who considered the genre to be devoid of any artistic value. Without giving up his passion, he dragged his dismay until he met Anthony, a young black American dancer advising him to try his luck at Brodway.
Entirely produced in direct color, this moving initiatory story immediately enchants the reader with the watercolor line of its author. Fluid and delicate, the graphics of the 29-year-old designer gracefully illustrate bodies in movement.
Partly located in the vibrant New York of the 1950s, the work brings us back to life the cultural abundance, the avant-garde scene, the beat generation, the political and social effervescence with the premises of the recognition of civil rights for blacks. and homosexuals.
«As I researched 1950s America, I realized how rich it was. I had an image of those conservative times when there were more liberated universes. I wanted to show that it was a very modern time », Explains the author.
This abundant context offers a dream setting for young Uli to reveal himself, free his body and his mind. Bubbling with joy and optimism, the hero delivers a salutary message. “Listening to yourself and looking for a form of authenticity is part of an approach where you cannot be wrong”. These pretty words from Maurane Mazars echo in the background throughout the album. Like an enchantment carried by a symphony of colors.