Entre-mains...

Considering choreographic writing as a graphic construction, and the stage as a sheet of paper, Pedro Pauwels composed “Entre-mains… “ like a painter, creating spaces, lines, curves, points of force, vacuums, seeking out a construction in motion. 

The reading of Kandinsky’s ”Point and Line to Plane” made him aware of the power emanating from unity and sharing – of spaces, lines… 

On stage, a group made up of “living cogs” seeks a fragile unity: how to be at one while holding on to your identity and giving voice to the uniqueness of each individual? 

“It was after my encounter with and viewing of Matisse’s painting “La Danse” at the Hermitage Museum in Saint-Petersburg, that I was inspired to write this piece. Union, assembly. Unity makes strength. Unite to fight. 

So many expressions that echoed in me at that time.  My personal history leads me to believe today, more than yesterday, that, alone, there’s little we can do. And that life sometimes hinges on the gift of another, their presence, their support, both psychological and physical. Loneliness. Depression. The adult who holds the hand of a child learning to walk to prevent him from falling. The other (the others), revealer of the self, the other mainstay, the other balance…I would like to address the danger, the delicate equilibrium between the two. Anchorage, attachment, strength! »