Cribles/live

Cribles/live is a piece created by Emmanuelle Huynh in 2010, after Cribles (2009). This piece is about the circle’s figure.

“When I began working on this piece, I accepted a poetic challenge: to look at the round, a simple ritual form, as a situation which activates our remembering of dances while at the same time giving us the possibility of inventing our own archives. This childish, archaic form is a vehicle for celebrations, rites, wedding and war dances, processions, foot stamping, unison movement. Stories of today run through them. In this community, singularity keeps popping up, “one” appearing in a dynamic, dialogical relationship to the others, sometimes initiating, sometimes being led. This community is inseparable from the singularities which comprise it, always much more than these singularities added together. The link, the attachment renders visible what happens in any group: relationships of power, confronting obstacles like solidarity.Beneath our feet and between our arms, history is written in the present, pitched between jubilation and fear.

I enjoyed discovering the power of Xenakis’ piece Persephassa, and I wanted to consider it as the protagonist of this work. I feel that its construction in relays of masses, blocks and pulses finds in this dance a visual and choreographic rendering. The acoustic and spatial architecture with its disseminations and transformations of the round support each other, answer each other and bombard each other. Indeed, do we see music or do we hear dance?”

Source : Mùa’s website : http://emmanuellehuynh.fr/index.php/en/creations/94-cribles-live-en