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Barry n'est pas complètement blanc
Morphose Company – “Barry is not completely white”
2015, 48mn05
digital, color
Choreographer: Soraya Thomas
Distribution : Mariyya Evrad, Orlando Rodriguez, Maeva Curco-llovera.
Music : Loan Livest.
Light : Nicole Leonforte
Resource provided by: Lalanbik, crdc
“The body, the seat of our emotions, can be transformed, ugly, beautiful, hard, gentle… , it can make visible the invisible of our states of souls. Body matter is a matter in motion over time, nothing freezes, everything shifts and fails to find that unstable balance. “ – Soraya Thomas
Barry is not completely white is a fantastical danced response to the misconception that the family unit is governed by roles assigned to each according to gender. One of the researches was made around the myth of Plato “androgynous”. According to Plato, in the beginning there were three kinds of men: women, men and androgynes. As they were strong and too bold for the gods, for they wanted to reach the heavens, Zeus decided to weaken them by splitting them in two.
After many oppositions imposed by religion, science at times and politics for centuries in our western lands, the return to a notion of complementarity and respect for difference through access to equal civil rights for all , seems to be still difficult. One of the directions of the piece is to express the constant need of the human being to be emotionally connected with the other, the attachment of the bodies, beyond his gender by structuring a movement in succession then in relay between the interpreters.
Source : Morphose
