Id

Id” is a dream-like journey where the viewpoint travels between various perceptions of the body and the architectural space.

For “Factory”, created in 1993, Hervé Robbe and sculptor Richard Deacon put the audience on the stage, free to walk around the dancers and the sculptures. This alternative offered another way of experiencing the performance.
By contributing to the movement, the audience “manufactured” the work at the same time as the dancers.” Factory”, or the shared space.
From one work to another, perception is explored and subject to choreographic proposals. “Id” is a dream-like journey where the viewpoint travels between various perceptions of the body and the architectural space. The sensitive presence of the dancers’ bodies alternates with the rapid image of the filmed bodies, in altered time.
The traditional organisation of theatre is hidden, and so disrupted. Already in the foyer, with nothing to restrain them before the contemplation of the performance, two dancers besiege a video installation – here technology plays its part in multiplying the view points. Later, and in metaphorical fashion, light floods the audience to remind them that they are participating in the same narcissistic drama.
The myth of Echo and Narcissus serves as fictional framework to the piece. The dancers are characters in search of their reflection, blind to others, or trying to assimilate them, in the hope of finding their own resonance there. The nostalgia for an objectively elusive body. When Narcissus finally gets close to his image, he disappears.

Source : Centre Chorégraphique National du Havre Haute-Normandie