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Un son étrange
Recorded at the Centre national de la danse in Pantin 14 March 2014
What does a body hear when it dances (or thinks it dances) and relies only on the silent forces that are its own, when around or so near to it the noise becomes deafening? What can it understand from an unprecedented text, Van Gogh, le suicidé de la société by Antonin Artaud, narrated by Alain Cuny, where, as though exhorted, the following, among other things, is written: “(…) under the terrible battering of this force of inertia that everyone talks about in veiled terms and that has never been so obscure since the entire planet and today’s society have done all they can to elucidate it…”? How, without himself assuming inertia, can it uphold, express and betray this excessiveness, where the power of a text and a voice are combined, that we have to listen to almost unceasingly (each day of our history asks this from us unconsciously) and expose itself to it intelligently? The paradoxical expectation of this dance would be to hear this text from a point of extreme vulnerability – where the body would only be the lever of an intelligence of being still to be invoked.
Source: programme of the CND
