Bye see you next ... no more

“Conceived as a diptych, the show is presented as two separate sections. In this first section, a feeling of confrontation dominates, and the spirit of destruction disorganises the dances. The second part presents a dissolving space, flow, movement.

“Conceived as a diptych, ‘Bye see you next…no more’ is presented as two separate sections. The first part, based on a hierarchy of events, of blocks in conflict which complement and destroy each other, is bathed in the musical world of the self-taught and intuitive experimental group Autechre, whose compositions, allied with the choreography, induce a distanced view rooted in the present. In this first section, a feeling of confrontation dominates, and the spirit of destruction disorganises the dances. The forms of conventionality, like the conditioned view that it entails, are twisted and distorted here.
By way of counterpoint, the second part presents a dissolving space, flow, movement and five solos, five dancers to coexist. Like its title, ‘Bye see you next…no more’, the piece keeps up an ambivalence and this ambiguity runs through the dances. But if the possible is not necessarily born out of chaos, the movement of this second section unfolds in the spirit of this quest. Gestures are made tentatively, they debate, meet. Hervé Robbe was looking for an alternative response and this desire colours the course of the choreography, allows it to expand, loosen up. This freeing up is presented as a passage through states and emotions, marked by the pleasure of dancing.”

Source: Irène Filiberti