Babil

In the wake of solo Des Taureaux dans la tête, babil is the third piece of The Scarecrow Cycle, a series dedicated to this emblematic figure. The series includes solos Fidèle à l’éclair (Claudio Stellato), havran (Jaro Vinarsky) and babil (Eric Domeneghetty), trio Humus vertebra (Eric Domeneghetty, Claudio Stellato, Jaro Vinarsky) that gathers all three figures in one piece, as well as solo Benedetto Pacifico (Guillermo Weickert Molina) that was created in 2011.

The scarecrow figure 

A poet of ancient times who reigns at the crossroad of fields, the  scarecrow is difficult to describe: for Karine Ponties, it is both a  touching and contradictory figure, like a lonely soldier who’s never  actually scared anyone. This vertical being is a man’s double, the  self-portrait of a being that keeps its own name under silence. A being  left to its own devices, a being in full release. 

babil

From their first to their last steps, all that humans try to do is to keep standing. From the ground to their backbone, verticality as a principle but also as a question. 

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