Alexandre

This piece was originally created as a duet with Sorour Darabi. For  artistic reasons, it then evolved into a solo in which the question of  the same and the other, of identity and a double are worked on in the  same body.

At the beginning, a voice: the recording of a timbre, a  breath, like the appearance of a radical otherness. At the beginning, a  language: a rhythm, a phrasing, a repetition, a meaning that slips  away. From this voice a series of questions affecting language is born.  What can dance do with a voice: attempt to approach the world it  transports at the border of meaning, or redeploy a movement in the  depths of its intensities, or its frictions, so as to reconstitute its  own system of sensation and interpretation? After a journey through the  physical, linguistic or anthropological questions raised by this  recording, concerning a male rite of passage, Pol Pi has produced a  piece – while making this forename the pass word to a possible transformation. As in her previous creation, Ecce (H)omo, the departure  material sets the coordinates of a new sensitive territory. First  accompanied by the performer Sorour Darabi, then alone, Pol Pi has  tied a knot, an interweaving, in which has been curled a reflection  about the construction of what is the same and what is different.  Between her body, her voice and her imaginary doubles there arises a  ritual navigation between the near and the far, fusion and cut-off,  dream and reality, masculine and feminine.

source: program of the CND