ROOMS OF OUR HIDDEN GEOMETRIES
(see rooms..the meaning)I started a whole process of collecting short dance pieces like collecting poems to create a dance-poems anthology. A concept similar to musical structure, concert or recital. Each piece has a relation with a different temperature and get inspired by the transformation of the time, by poetic statements, memories, abandonment.
-1. Tuning (not created)
Similar to the tuning done by musicians before starting the piece of music. How to show dancers tuning their body in the space as the main purpose of the choreography?
0 . Opening or Resume (not created)
Similar to the starting of a musical concert, I will create the opening of the whole collection. A composition withsome important moment from each piece.
No.1. Air
First choreographic work, solo performed by myself presented in the visual art field. This work is based on the
perception of the silence expressed throught movement. I used a black costum to emphasise the graphism of the
dance. For me tracing the space with my body was related to my drawing practice.
2. Spiral Of Our Inner Space, variation quartet
First choreographic project with a group of professional dancers. I performed as a reciter but didn’t involved my
presence in the space. I worked with different layers, building a language that engaged personal memories of
the dancers that meet and interact.
2.1. Spiral Of The Inner Space, variation duet.
Part of the classical programmation of Julian Jacobson at Brockleymax festival, Spiral.. has been adapted into a duet. Adaptation introduced the potential of tranforming, elongating, shorten and developp a piece of dance.
3. Dry Sigh
This duet started with the idea of empty space, desert space where life can hardly survive. I travelled throughout
the Atlas mountains of Morocco for two months in order to draw inspiriration from the atmospheres, sounds and
landscapes. I wrote poetry about my experience.
3.1. Solar Soliloquy
Solo for a man who never shows his face. The energy of this piece has been built with music by Terry Riley
who works with the idea of exstatic moments.This solo is linked into the duet Dry Sigh but can be shown on its own. An other potential of development, adapting an element of material for its singularity.
4. Lunar Soliloquy
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Solo for a woman who lives in a dark and confine space and tend to show the beauty of the imperfection. Lunar Soliloquy is a solo dance and a response to Dry Sigh. It considers life with no room, confined by the limits of the human frame in a closed space. Does this body have the freedom to dream?
5. Up to the line
This process involved 7 dancers for a performance on the 11th November, an event to commemorate the
end of the First War World at Brockley cemetary, London. An accumulation process with disconection and
reconnection. Short term creation (two weeks). My starting point was to recreate the trenches, inviting my dancers to imagine they were in the
trenches with their movement until they come across the open space of a field.
Developing from individual movements to a collective performance