Encor

video shot on 27-28 July 2010 at the Centre national national de la danse in a research residency

Once upon a time. 

“After I left the CCN in Rennes, I had an idea for a ‘commission’. I remembered  the process behind San, a commission from Antonio Pinto Ribeiro for the 2002  Culturgest in Lisbon: it was a tribute to Oskar Schlemmer. My initial reticence  was swept away by the pleasure of exploring material that was totally new  and ultimately independent of my will, i.e. the pre-set constraints and the  subject didn’t belong to me. I found this experience hugely liberating, a kind of self-release. The brand-new avenues opened up by my position of regained  independence revived me desire to once again apprehend the very special quality that a commission brings to the creative process. I knew it would be Guy Darmet’s last Biennale in 2010, so it was about departures, new departures. He replied with the very theme of this Biennale: “Encore”. I’m grateful to him! As mundane and trivial as this word might seem, it carries the strength of desire, transmission, duration, and a kind of gravity, too. And so, seriously and with a playful pleasure, I began to reflect strenuously on what this “Encore” would encompass.”

Catherine Diverrès

(source : press file of the Biennale de la danse of Lyon 2010)

Updating November 2014