Instantanés #3 - Alex Blondeau

With Snapshots, choreographers Christian and François Ben Aïm propose  a series of solos performed by women. This work brings into dialogue  the springs of intimacy and the hectic forces of the outside world. It  unfolds as a fragmented study of what makes up an identity, seen as a  moving matter.

Each solo is an opportunity to bring out a new energy, underground,  unknown, a reserved part. This study borrows from haiku, the poetry of  the moment. Here, through movement and gesture, the choreographers seek  to capture this emotion, immediate and fleeting, in the manner of a  photographer capturing the decisive moment.

Short pieces, light forms for the stage as well as in situ, they can  be presented indoors or outdoors. These solos can live autonomously,  alone, or be associated with each other, in a configuration adapted to  each occasion and space.
Eventually, this series of short female portraits will constitute a  mosaic, a kaleidoscope with multiple entries and combinations.

> With the creation of Instantanés #3 – Alex Blondeau at Les Plateaux Sauvages,  a new feminine era is opening. With transformation and revelation still  as a guide, like a passage from darkness to light, for this third opus,  the choreographers have chosen the theme of night, in order to bring  out a new, underground and unknown energy.In the same way that the first solos highlight the qualities of the  performer in the face of a specific universe, for this part, two ideas  lead the first desires: the expression nightbird with all the imaginary  that it evokes; and the association of the word night with that of  disappearance, the night envisaged as a metaphorical space to say the  absence, and also the moment when one can (re)invite with joy the absent  ones. 

Source: Christian & François Ben Aïm

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