Face à face

“This solo is bound up with my own story. I wanted to find myself alone on a stage, to assess where I stood after so many years of composing with someone else. I felt an irrepressible need to move, to face up to myself, to my body of a 47-year-old woman. I wanted a real face-to-face confrontation, to see myself as I really am. With no pretence. “Face à Face” is an outcome, a kind of symbolic form of my independence. It is a cosmic, poetic, dream-like object which resembles me, which is made to measure. These days I am ready to dance alone, to show myself in front of an audience. This solo reveals the women I have inside me. I improvised a great deal in order to liberate the different facets which up to now I had not explored much on stage. I did not want to rely on words, but wanted to express everything through the body. I also drew on the world of cinema. I adore Asian films and Hitchcockian characters!”

Accounts collected by Gwénola David / Théâtre de la Ville