Projet In Situ
Since then, Martin Chaput and Martial Chazallon have worked together, creating Du Haut (2000), Manège (2001), Wake Up! You’d Need to Sweep the Courtyard! (2001); then on the 4 M project, research based on urban and intimate corporeality in Mexico (Miradas cruzadas, 2002), in Montreal (Appartement témoin, 2005), in Maputo (Taxidermie, 2006), brought back into play at the Merlan, national stage in Marseille and at the National Choreographic Centre in Rillieux-la-Pape (Taxidermie #2, 2007). Tu vois ce que je veux dire ?, a blind choreographic journey, was created in 2005 in Marseille (Merlan, national stage) then re-created in Lyon (Dance Biennial, 2008), Montreal (FTA, 2010), Geneva (Antigel Festival, 2011).
In situ : in the right place, in its natural setting, in its normal, usual place. Where’s the body’s rightful place? Where’s the rightful place of the other’s body, of one’s own body, of the body of one’s other self?
The In situ project questions the intimate and collective memory of bodies, their political and social dimension; right there where the corporal of each individual forms, where identity and otherness negotiate together. A corporal duality that Martin Chaput and Martial Chazallon’s choreographic writing is in phase with.
For each creation, bringing together a new team, transdisciplinary artists from the world of contemporary dance, from here, from there, from faraway and from just-around-the-corner. Meeting together, experimenting, confronting perspectives, transposing tools for choreographic, visual and musical writing. Variety in daily happenings, daily doings, which transform the context of each creation and each performance, designed like times for rewriting, for new comings and goings, where new constraints create a certain liberty, a presence, a space for uncertain dialogue, a negotiation on the use of space by these ever-so occupied bodies. Corporeality, transformed daily by the impacts of politics, social and cultural occurrences. Question the body of the spectator in all its states, mobilize it and redefine its presence, its link to the other in the re-presentation space, regardless whether this may be a theatre stage, a public place, a private place, a territory, a in-between.
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Last update: October 2011