February 20th – 22nd, 2025 Théâtre National Wallonie-Bruxelles, Brussels
March 26th – 28th, 2025 Chaillot / Théâtre de la Ville, Paris
135 minutes
A Dreamlike Journey
Monuments are cold, static, soundless; human bodies are warm, breathing, chanting. Carte Blanche’s new performance is undoubtedly both long and remarkable.
Springback Magazine
in collaboration with Carte Blanche – the Norwegian National Company of Contemporary Dance and composer Carmen Villain
The Living Monument unfolds worlds that have their own logic. It is a dreamlike journey, at times a beautiful nightmare, playing with duration and space like a landscape in which slowness creates its own music. Shifting sceneries, inhabited by fictional figures, reveal images and sensations which evoke glimpses of memories, fragments of narrations and futuristic visions.
Developed together with fourteen performers, the choreography is created from bodies, fabrics and objects, which continuously transform and reconfigure to form new physical, mental and visual environments. Guided by the ecological principle of recycling, materials and voices are reused and reshaped. Songs blend with natural, instrumental and digital sounds. Bodies are hidden or exposed, figures appear only to transform. Voices intermingle, they stir up sensations and carry stories that anyone can inhabit.