September 25th – 28th, 2024 Panthéon, Paris
60 minutes
World Premiere in Panthéon
At first, the goal is to present a thick, dense, and fibrous substance by choreographing a clustering of bodies. The dancers, spread horizontally, glide on the floor and over each other. Then, to make visible the moment when, after being pressed against each other, they detach, much like their internal bodily masses gradually engage in opposite directions. They start to move apart, to differentiate, moving in opposite directions while still constantly linked. Their dance mostly unfolds on the ground. The group’s tightening and expansions allow its movement: each contraction followed by an expansion into a new space. Together, they shape pneumatic volumes, making them palpable. They unfold with determination and gentleness through the notions of direct space (moving from one point to another by the shortest path), sustained time, and lightness of weight.
Finally, the group develops a more vaporous material: the treatment of space, which was direct in the previous phase, becomes indirect (movement from one point to another is curved and sinuous). A floating quality, conducive to resonance, sets in. The seven dancers are always in contact; the group moves and changes shape, but now, it remains expansive, and the dancers invest both horizontal and vertical space. Together, they float, they wander through the meanders of a labyrinth (each one’s inner bodily space and the group’s space). Inhabited by the light and elastic roundness of sacro-cranial vibrations, their volume encompasses the labyrinth; they move through its passages, savoring the thickness of each moment, the eternity of dilated time.