Immersion

This series showcasing the leading works of two creators was initiated  last year at the CN D. After Monnier/Marin and Mantero/Triozzi, Carlson  and Diverrès take pride of place this spring. In their work, bodies  become calligraphies, emblems of a subterranean world that is tragic and  mysterious. Their dance is all about women, the movement of a body not  split up playing with gravity, the energy of urges, expressiveness and a  certain violence of the emotions. They are Carolyn Carlson and  Catherine Diverrès, two choreographers producing a world of images and  energies that draw on other worlds and encounters. Catherine Diverrès’s  career has been marked above all by her trip to Japan to meet Kazuo Ôno,  one of the founding choreographers of butô dancing. As for Carolyn  Carlson, she left Alwin Nikolaïs for France in the early 1970s and has  influenced several generations of performers and creators. In this  programme, the two choreographers bring to the surface of their bodies,  not their memory, and still less a distant past, but the vestige of what  was for them a foundational experience. In Ô Sensei, Catherine  Diverrès, accompanied by Katja Fleig, takes us back to the origins of  her calligraphy, in a dialogue with the spirit of her (Sensei) master  Kazuo Ôno, who died in 2010. Imbued with tiny variations and  incantations, throbbing with ambiguous incarnations, her gestures sketch  out a farewell that is repeated infinitely in the manner of unfolding  time. In Short Stories, Carolyn Carlson touches on the invisible. From her famous solo Density 21,5 – which revolutionised the dance world 42 years ago and was passed on to Isida Micani – to Mandala danced by Sara Orselli, Carlson conjures dreams out of the air. But the eternal Water Lady lends her intense presence to Immersion, plumbing the unfathomable depths of the soul.

Source: program of the CND