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Faites demi-tour dès que possible
Recorded at the CND 26 January 2012
“Faites demi-tour dès que possible” opens on Pierre-Johann Suc’s first solo, composed in 1998. It deals with the story of a family from Alsace, its silences, Jewry, exile and deportation. This is followed by an unusual road movie, exploiting the codes of reporting and of travel journals and filmed during a journey in 2008. Historic locations pass by on three screens, like looking through a car’s windows: Camp Gurs, Vichy, Alsace, then Nuremberg, Auschwitz-Birkenau. The film then gives way once again to the initial solo, reproduced this time by the dancer’s father, as if to illustrate that, after all of that, the movement has lived and bears the traces of (a) hi-story. The son reappears, accompanied by a child. Three generations are called to the stage, to dilate and to offset a same family past, but more specifically, to reinvent the initial project with regard to transmitting it.
Latest update: April 2012
