All in All

Eight dancers from the Ballet de Lyon mount resistance with Pierre Droulers. For them, the latter has imagined a special choreographic object that satisfies their working conditions. They are walkers. Time is their challenges. As though propelled on a rail, that of a continuous movement whose duration must be tracked, the interpreters officiate non-stop. Rather than a composition, in the conventional sense of the term, the choreographer proposes an itinerary with stops, actions, moments of isolation. A strange composition that has something pictorial and takes from the plastic arts a certain number of concepts, transposed to the stage in a performative approach. In this setting, the body is the object of a hybrid status. Extremely subject to metamorphosis, it thus assumes incongruous postures, transforming on the spot into a multitude of living, instantaneous sculptures. Fleeting, ironic creations that, through the use of clothes or other objects diverted from their original purpose, query shapes and space with the greatest fluidity and a lot of humour. This bias aims at an awareness of the relationship of body and gaze through parodying effects due to events that interrupt and even disrupt the continuous movement to which the interpreters are subjected. Drawing inspiration from the works of the Austrian plastic artist Erwin Wurm, Pierre Droulers raises the issue of identity and the human condition as regards its immateriality, but also of dance and its bringing into play. Alternating impulsion and decision, with short danced segments, the choreography gives priority to brightness and visibility, staying clear of the context of variation. Between rupture and continuity, the score plays on cracking, dislocation, incorporates jumps and altered parts. The group now becomes a landscape, as though pinned in space with sudden, unexpected interactions, modifications. During this process, Pierre Droulers sought to identify ideas and desires around a research familiarity entered into with the interpreters, to question also the personality of each one and find what is unique within the same group.