Extasis

Choreography Mathilde Monnier, Jean-François Duroure

Dance performance Sonia Darbois, Jonathan Pranlas

Pudique acide was world premiered in march, 1984 in New York and Extasis in november, 1985 at the Maison de la Danse in Lyon Mathilde Monnier and Jean-François Duroure created the first duo of Pudique Acide in New York, a time of nervous and clever writing. Extasis picks up this work and intensifies the data. You will find the same wild invention which gallops through all the styles, the same insistence to exhibit, as burningscars, the multiple traces of a heritage of which they are the point of convergence. Cunningham, Viola Farber, François Verret, Pina Bausch are evoked as much as their body language comments, amplifies, digests and breaks.Dressed the same, first in Scottish kilts, then in rustling flounces under man’s coats, they (explicitly) affirm the bitter lives of angels. Not the androgynous split, but the reduplication of the sex. Each, in their own ambiguity and, ironically, holding back, condenses in themselves the sum of all the desires. A strip-tease, a violent scribbling coming from the lips of the male : we break in, just like with Pina Bausch, around the Object, exceeding it constantly.Hence the exchanges of skin, hands, intertwined legs under the tulle. “Heated” skin until exhaustion. The trivial sonorities of Kurt Weill, the words (of the Brecht from Berlin) do not evoke brothels and tartar steaks for nothing.

Laurence Louppe . art press january 1986

Source: National Choreographic Center Montpellier Languedoc-Rousillon, France

Credits

Chorégraphie Mathilde Monnier, Jean-François Duroure interprétation Sonia Darbois Jonathan Pranias musique kurt weill, bernard herrmann lumière Eric Wurtz réalisation costume Laurence AlquierCoproduction De hexe, Maison de la Danse LyonRemerciement Institut français de CopenhagueCoproduction recréation théâtre de la cité internationale – paris . théâtre garonne – toulouse . CCN de montpellier languedoc-roussillon avec l’aide du conservatoire de strasbourg, cité de la musique et de la danse

« Pudique acide » a été créé en mars 1984 à new-york et « Extasis » en novembre 1985 à la maison de la danse de lyonRecréation le 20 juin 2011 . en ouverture du festival Montpellier Danse 2011 en Languedoc-Roussillon, festival uzès danse

Réalisation Charles Picq date du document vidéo 2011 production Maison de la Danse

Updating: June 2011