Cold Song

Daniel Larrieu’s Cold Song proposes a perforated and performed solo reading of these years of silence which the “AIDS years”, as they  are commonly referred to, were for him. Larrieu considers himself as a survivor of the last “live in secret, live happy” generation in the  midst of the storm of daily news and personal upheavals connected to the disappearance of loved ones; while showing great respect for the discretion which kept art and activism separate, the choreographer is animated by a sense of urgency to put the polymorphous violence of that era in perspective, and a necessity to transmit, through literary writing, a flow of emotions and a flux of interrogations. “The time has come to tell the story of this “darkening” of our lives”. As in an enigmatic and cathartic ritual, the artist interrogates from within the blanks of silence, the taboos, the unshared experiences and extreme notions of living with and dying with the disease, in a piece that brings together the dead and the living.

Source: programme of the CND