Ecran somnambule

Un bloc compact au milieu de l’espace nu. Un visage, impassible et grimaçant. Une sculpture immobile, mais qui semble pourtant bouger, s’étirer, se contracter, tendre sa matière jusqu’à la limite d’elle-même.

2012

Latifa Laâbissi

Creation 2012, La Passerelle – Scène Nationale de Saint-Brieuc, dans le cadre du Festival 360°Dance Latifa Laâbissi

Écran somnambule is a solo whose matrix is a unique 1926 film lasting a minute and 40 seconds, an archival fragment of Mary Wigman’s Witch Dance, danced by the choreographer herself. Latifa Laâbissi has chosen to address the question of re-enactment as part of her process of choreographic creation and has plunged deep inside the symbolic archaeology of the work, slowing it down, distorting it. The dance, once detached from its initial foundation, now distended and metabolised, shows us an extraordinary shape: a body bowed completely backwards, arms extended, head blown back, face turned to the sky, a body transformed by an interpretation which stretches time as if driven by an invisible power.

Credits

Concept: Latifa Laâbissi Costume : Nadia Lauro Lighting : Yannick Fouassier Sound score : Olivier Renouf  after the instrumental performance of Henri-Bertrand Lesguillier (after the music by H. Hasting and W. Goetze) Running time: 32 minutes