Le madisoning

Le Madisoning (2020), a dance video installation on 3 screens, sound installation in 5.1.
Authors: Léonore Mercier, Justine Pluvinage and Amélie Poirier

Le Madisoning is a dance video installation for 3 screens and a 5.1 sound system. It is the result of a collaboration between Justine Pluvinage, video director, Amélie Poirier choreographer, theatre director, and Léonore Mercier, composer.
If Madison is a line dance created in the United States in the 1960s by a former miner, Madisoning is a video-dance project for 4 actors from Cie de l’Oiseau-Mouche. Choreographer Amélie Poirier proudly revisits her first choreographic heritage: family celebration dances.
By adding them, by altering them, by varying their rhythms, by bringing in a form of “disturbing strangeness” etc., we are playing here to disturb the borders between these so-called popular dances and the field of the contemporary.
This “founding gesture” is here taken to the extreme by the repetition of the same sound and rhythmic pattern in the lower body (the sound of shoes hitting with the rhythm of Madison). While the upper body deals with other complex patterns in terms of coordination from other dances of family celebrations (macarena, duck dance etc.). This rhythmic repetition therefore becoming performative, an editing game takes place, plunging us with each new rhythmic repetition into a suddenly different space offering variable sound surfaces. This preponderance of sound is amplified by sound spatialization giving the sensation that sound is dancing. So that a paradox takes place in the image between these very vertical, almost rigid bodies and this moving sound.