enfant

Enfant represents dance in its essential form: letting-go and letting-be in the circulation of bodies of very different sizes.

Created for the Cour d’honneur du Palais des Papes, Enfant is a work of choreography for nine dancers of adult size and twenty-six child dancers. Reusing the machines from Régi (2005) and working with various choreographic materials from the previous piece, Levée des conflits (2009), Enfant represents dance in its essential form: letting-go and letting-be in the circulation of bodies of very different sizes. This performance also experiments with the choreographic force: that is, of being arranged according to multiple scenarios. In this work, Boris Charmatz reveals a space particular to the danced gesture: how does the gesture impose its presence within the volume that contains it, and how does it, at the same time, create a space of its own? In the extract shown here, the adult bodies, with extreme precision, move around, shake, and manipulate the bodies of children. The children embody the awareness of inertia, of letting-go, of the weight, through their absolute obedience to the physical commands executed by the adult bodies. As the performance progresses, the relationship is reversed, and it is the children’s bodies that cooperate to act upon the adult bodies which are rendered inert.

Source : Boris Charmatz

More information :

http://www.borischarmatz.org/