Capture d'un caillot

Capture d’un caillot is the second piece that Karine Ponties created in collaboration with Jan Kuijken, composer in residence at Lod Muziektheater since 2000. 

The man from behind | Stendhal syndrome | The cold of winter | Mirrors (distortion) | Red (appearance-disappearance)

These five themes were departure points, for everyone, of which only traces remained at the arrival. In and of itself, each theme is too rich and vast to even attempt to develop it fully in the space and time of a single piece, but what common thread do they share? Intuition, transitions and the moment of suspension.

This project was conceived as a prolonged moment of suspension, and offers portraits that alternate between rigor and release, that are at once drawn forward and turned inward. Instants right before an event—the heart of the interval. Appearance, inhalation and disappearance lend rhythm to time and space just as fire and ice freeze and burn. When our vision becomes blurred, isn’t it at this precise moment that we approach the essence of being—its multiplicity,  its secret? That we’re offered the possibility to dismantle our self as “new idea” of reorganization appears? This is the moment of Capture.

With this project, Karine Ponties settled into the “transitional zone” for a while, accompanied by a crew, in an attempt to create a gaze that “connects” image with emotion. A composer, a visual artist, a lighting designer, a technician and two dancing bodies came together to explore this territory and view it as an imaginary cartography—drawing its contours, shadows and light, enjoying its cold expanses, admiring its reflections and etching their misshapen images, and then, with a sound, piercing the nascent red with a laugh.

Meeting at the border, in one’s core, where something happens, and lends itself to be seen.

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