Lapsus

”Lapsus” is a miniature enclosed in a ring, two metres in circumference, placed in the centre of the stage. A naked body, that of the choreographer, a light that carves him up into unusual, strange, original sections, from behind or in profile. 

“How honing our perception in the so-called interior or exterior tends to enlarge the notion of limit. The search for a new writing of a third solo attempts to deploy the elusive space of how you perceive the other and questions the issues of the relationship between the presence of the body and the space it occupies. The body is treated in its most complete form, incorporating all sensitive areas and the various levels of sensation. Particular attention is paid to the space around the body’s outline, the relationship with its empty parts, its shadows, the volume surrounding it, the background, the backdrop. The background is not only a container but bears a momentum. It connects with the incidents of the body to become the subject, the present texture.»  

Maria Donata D’Urso 

Remark by Arnold Pasquier: “I met Maria Donata d’Urso while I was dancing for Gérard Gourdot in the early 90s. Our friendship led us to work together regularly on each other’s projects. She asked me to make this recording of her solo, reduced for film purposes.”