Acta est fabula

“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

Creation 2018 for 5 dancers

Intent

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.

As someone who was born abroad and now lives in France, I pay particular attention to the idea of belonging to a place, to a human group. Here in France, I am very intrigued by the absence of symbols shared by all, because I know that as social creatures, we have a basic need to gather around symbols. Do they still exist? Is it possible to reinvent them?

In this piece I aim to create, with the five dancers in my company, something that unites us in a given space, on our scale, starting from each individual’s unique aspects. The process interweaves two converging dynamics: sound, whose source is in the collective memory; and choreography, based on a search for movement around the body and the line, which I view as an archaic form.

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