En Création - around "In Comune" of Ambra Senatore

This documentary explores the process led by choreographer Ambra Senatore and with the dancers who accompany her in the creation of the performance In Comune. It reveals a group functioning with love and generosity, where each dancer, through exchanges and improvisations, brings out their individuality. Between choreographic research and reflections on the collective, human beings, and other living entities, this performance is driven and inspired by human interactions, and this film captures its profound essence.

On the stage, twelve men and women. Enough for a tiny community, always in movement. For her newest creation, Ambra Senatore wanted to create a group, to question the relationships between individuals, with performers from even more diverse backgrounds than she’s used to. Together they explore the space and their relationships to ask the quintessential questions of our time as they move across the stage: what does constitute each person ? what do we bring to the encounter with the other? How can the collective support us, enhance us, or also inhibit us? What strength can arise from being together?

The choreographer intends to create a “polis” (Greek for “city”), in other words to build a micro-society and articulate its capacity to welcome, or not, individuals. This is a negotiation about the sharing of the space, and the choreography plays with its inherent tensions, twists, and repetitions. It once again brings to the fore the artistry of Ambra Senatore’s choreographic composition, with the absurd as the ever-present subtle filter in her dance, made of breaks in rhythm and unexpected connections.

Composer Jonathan Seilman, with whom she’s worked since 2016, created a bespoke score to explore this music which speaks of what makes us, what flows through our cultural and collective memories… Always moving and fleeting, the light also plays a crucial part, drawing attention to scenes, objects, details, and directing the gaze of the spectator by offering him to look at what is highlighted, but also at what is left in the dark, what is not brought to the fore, what is perhaps hidden, so that he can choose what to look at.