herses (une lente introduction)

herses (une lente introduction) offers a choreographic device which places the dance at the center of the audience, in a multidirectional reflection upon the way the gaze fixates upon the body.

herses (une lente introduction), following on A bras le corps and Aatt enen tionon, offers a choreographic device which places the dance at the center of the audience, in a multidirectional reflection upon the way the gaze fixates upon the body. Nudity imposes itself and confronts the viewer with various utopias: the utopia of the liberated body, of the sexually differentiated human body, and of the social and communitarian body. It’s not a work which addresses nudity as such, but rather a work which challenges the utopias of the body and its relations. A musical score by Helmut Lachenmann, including in particular “concrete instrumental music,” introduces a distance into the relationship between music and dance in order to suggest temporal-spatial cohabitation without making the strong connections directly readable. Similarly, in the selected extract, bodies are individual and more or less scattered in the spatial setting. Viewers, whom we can make out in the background, remind us that, depending on one’s place, the appreciation of the work will be different.
“herses (une lente introduction” is going to give rise to “Une lente introduction,” a silent film based on a sequence from the performance which offers a sustained work of bodies in contact—a utopian vision different from the individual acts presented in this extract.

Source : Boris Charmatz

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