Donc

Donc speaks of intimacy, where the group cannot enter, of the performer’s own experience in the gesture of creation. The music is the bond of virtuosity, of the shared experience taking shape on the stage.

Donc (“Therefore”) speaks of intimacy, where the group cannot enter, of the performer’s own expe- rience in the gesture of creation. The music is the bond of virtuosity, of the shared experience taking shape on the stage.
“I want to explore and detect the material that we handle during the gestation of the creation, that material which is essential to the dancer’s understanding and maturity. The material that gives birth to the performance but that, out of both choice and necessity, disappears in the end. I should like to ponder the performer’s feelings and personal commitment during this particular period of creation, his power and ability to grasp the questions raised while working together. To delve into what the performer experiences deep down, what he remembers, what he constructs both for the project’s own sake and in parallel to it. In a previous creation, the issue raised was the relationship of gesture to music, the relationship of the dancers to the musicians.
Today I want to experience what happens afterwards. What vibrations of the senses, of the bodies, persist? I invite four dancers and a violinist to testify to the absence, the silence, the echo that dwell in them. They will each seek the musical, choreographic and human essence of their relationship to music and to dance.” (Sylvain Groud)

Source : Compagnie Sylvain Groud