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Acta est fabula
Creation Yuval Pick 2018
“The primary focus of my work is the idea of the collective, or group: how it forms, how individuals interact with it, what shared space it defines.
In this piece, I want to examine the construction of the symbols that embody the feeling of belonging to a place or a human group. I’m intrigued by hymns, these songs that speak of a common origin or commitment to a cause.
I believe our identities are porous and heterogeneous. How can we create a common and shared symbol that brings all those singularities together? I want my work to confront that question and transcend it through the bodies and movement of the five dancers of the company. By transforming the human voice and the rhythms that we fabricate, I want to create something bigger than us, that reaches beyond ourselves.
The process spawns the convergence of two dynamics: sound, taking its source in the collective memory, and choreography, built on the exploration of the figure of the line, which is something I see as archaic. I want to convey the feeling of how individuals evolve in the line and how we maintain that line alive, our lifeline.”
Yuval Pick, April 2018
