SOLO 55 – talk about dance through my dance here and now – 2010-2011
Research

My age gives the tone to this new research.

Dance the 55

What does the dance can still bring to the dancer I am ? Which gesture lives in my body ? What does it has to say? Does the discourse of a mature age has it’s place in our context of diffusion ?

In this way develop a particular dance that respects the age linked with the environment that is our day to day live: a stage, a place for performances ? A place of communication ? A place of consumption ?

Talk about dance through my dance here and now.

Questioning the gestural habits of the dancer I am, brings to give value to the space where presence and  unknown have their place together. Open yourself to the “non habits”. Live the risk to not correspond anymore, that’s also make the apology of the doubts.

Play with parasites, being bitten, being congested, embarrassed opens other space of exploration and transformation in the respect of where we are.

Guided by Florence Augendre, dancer, performer, trained in fascia-pulsology, she assists the company in different projects for several years.  This guidance helped me to approach my habits with a physiological point of view, confronting them for a better questioning and abandon them.

Caroline Boillet, gestural video artist, followed the whole process and collected images in a documentary  Danser les 55…