Divagations dans une chambre d'hôtel

How do words articulate with body language ? How do movement and thought interact with each other in a unique body ?

How is speech articulated in body language? How can movement and thought interact, all this in a single body?

It is based on such questions that Bruno Beltrão created Moi et mon chorégraphe au 63, whose Divagations dans une chambre d’hôtel is the recreation in film form. Inserts of urban images, fragmented and demultiplied, accentuate the tension and the dislocated nature of the solo. 

Initiated to street dance in 1993, at the age of 13, Beltrão quickly became one of its virtuoso representatives in Brazil and considers hip hop as the base of his expression. However, with the Grupo de Rua de Niterói (Niterói is his hometown in the suburbs of Rio), which he founded three years later with Rodrigo Bernardi, he was to seek not so much to set himself apart from it as to free it from its codes and clichés: “Hip hop has placed in orbit a rich and innovative vocabulary. We now need to provoke in it a crisis. By distancing and dissecting its vocabulary, we can discover new aesthetics”. This was exactly what he set out to do, with remarkable maturity, as from his first works, relying especially on the writing processes of contemporary dance. 

Through its intimist dimension, the mastery of its gestural composition, its musical score made up of the dancer’s voice, and its words that seek themselves, Moi et mon chorégraphe is a perfect example of the language elaborated by Beltrão.

Source : Myriam Bloedé