30 jours avec Paul-André Fortier

Using a daring approach, Solo 30×30, offers an original concept proposed as an event/performance. Designed as a site-specific 30-minute performance, the solo piece is presented outside each day at the same place and at the same time for 30 days.

choreography 30×30 (création 2006)

Using a daring approach, Solo 30×30, offers an original concept proposed as an event/performance. Designed as a site-specific 30-minute performance, the solo piece is presented outside each day at the same place and at the same time for 30 days. The venue is an unusual place for a show. Although transitory, it is part of the city and its activities and allows for a privileged encounter between the artist, his surroundings and the public.

In his creations, Paul-André Fortier frequently encourages other artists, to contribute to his work. Solo 30×30 pursues this combination by having, in each city, one (or more) other creator working around it. Fabien Plasson makes a movie performance “30 days with Paul-Andre Fortier” about Solo 30×20, performed in Lyon, 2008.

“Paul-André Fortier has been traveling the world for the past five years with Solo 3×30 (2006), giving free, site-specific performances rain or shine, exposed to the vagaries of the weather and the gaze of passersby – their indifference or their curiosity, their admiration, mockery or desire. At outdoor locations he temporarily marked, with gestures repeated like a ritual, urban territories that are part of the unnoticed banality of everyday life. These places in transit, these thoroughfares and down-at-the-heels city sites, included bridges, public squares, vacant lots and overpasses for which he ascribed new functions. Oddly enough, the strangeness of the proposal bred a familiarity. Every day at the same hour, “a man who dances” would return to resume his odd but regular task, a combination of work and prayer performed by a dancing itinerant of no fixed address.”

Michèle Febvre

Source : Fortier Danse Création