Les jolies choses

Intake of Air

Five  bodies move to the rhythm of a metronome. Their mechanical gestures are  endlessly reprised, the machine runs wild and demands their absolute  compliance. With her ripened artistic language, choreographer Catherine  Gaudet seeks a space within bodies where desires can be reborn despite  the burden of constriction.

This seemingly harmless collective  score, with its orderly routes, gives off a scent of cheap veneer that  will soon end up cracking. 

Attuned to the conflicting throbbing of her  era, Gaudet surrounds herself with her loyal collaborators to explore  the false pretenses of the show business apparatus. After a while,  repetition reveals itself to be the troublemaker among the  dancers-turned-instrumentalists. It pushes open the whistling valve to  release the excess vapour of salted bodies. Indeed, de-pressure is the  flip side of grandiosity. Here, the risk of tastelessness is all too  real, but necessary in order to maintain balance.     

« Sharing  complexity also means relying on a detached perspective, but that  doesn’t prevent us from drawing a historically validated line between  unjust power and legitimate resistance. »

Catherine Gaudet

Source: Company’s website

More information: catherinegaudet.com