Bribes

“Bribes” is the first part of a trilogy about memory which consists of “Back Up”, “Anamnèse acte I” and “Anamnèse acte II”. Written memory, as a process of inventory, recuperation or evacuation. Associative memory, with the dreamlike installation “Mots d’A” (Words of A), which refers to the hinterworld of areas of strategic simulation: sex and war. A sound stratification of the words that come before…moving on to the act itself: penetration, surge, conquest. The basis of “Anamnèse” is an interplay of correspondence, exploration, mirroring and depth between a film and a dancer present on stage. The undercurrent is the theme of memory as each person deals with it. An interplay which brings up issues of identification, turmoil…For me it brings together the need to re-examine, in association with the dancers, the matter of performance as the desire for metamorphosis, curiosity and extrapolation.

In “Anamnèse”, the performer is invited to appropriate and embody the memory and the imagination of another dancer, unknown to the performer. This memory is transmitted by a third person, the choreographer, and so subjective. It could be said that the latter is, in fact, the first performer in a set of successive generations. This notion of generation, strongly linked to that of the memory, operates at all levels of the composition of “Anamnèse”: through the building up of the soundtrack created by superimposition, through the permeability of the spaces, through the play of reflected light (one source, many generations), through the dismantling and dividing up of the films in space, through the repetition of the solos…

Haïm Adri