Erase-E(x) [parts 1, 2, 3]

Inspired by the painting “Erased De Kooning Drawing”  (1953)  in which Robert Rauschenberg erased a drawing of Willem De Kooning and  in doing so made it substantially his own, Joji Inc has imagine  ERASE-E(X), a multi parts project in which several choreographers are  invited to erase and recreate the preceding one.

It stars with a dance material provided  by A.T de  Keersmaeker. The Wooster Group of New York erases this prologue. Then is  erased by A.T de Keersmaeker who is erased by Isabella Soupart who is  erased by the Video performer Kurt D’Hasealeer etc.

Part 1 : The form of Anne Teresa De Keersmaeker dance  is erased by The Wooster Group  in stages as each choreographic gesture is infused with the  psychological content of Godard’s “modern women”, capricious, royal,  mysterious.

Part 2 : Anne Teresa De Keersmaeker takes back all the Wooster Group’s material, erases any psychological  content to create a virtuoso piece danced to the Indian percussion music  of Umayalpuram Sivaraman, and Dolly Parton ‘ s”Jolene”. 

Part 3 : Isabella Soupart deletes  the second part and creates a piece between theater and dance. A  duo/duel with a touch a cruel thriller. A feeling of emergency. Of a man  facing a woman he thinks he recognises.  a complex story slowly  revealed itself. Physical and rhythmical tainted of a laced  cinematographic naturalism with humour and drama. It is the  deconstruction of the text and movement that gushes with its entire  force into this direction.

Source : Joji Inc

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