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Japan
Solo
“Life – that is: continually shedding something that wants to die” (Nietzsche)
“Always ready to die, as to live. I choreographed this solo as a manifesto of joie de vivre, as well as a joy for death. Returning to the concept of Expressionism, to the spectacular, but in the form of movement. Glimpsing the possibility that anything can stop at any time. Living life to the very fullest, savouring every moment. What if living meant accepting this daily emptiness, this primordial absurdity? Dancing can therefore be a way to reject death while also making friends with it. Death is like a garment that we hide away and that give life a particular taste. A car passes right up close. ‘We could have been killed.’ A jolt of a reminder that the body is not a solid entity but a sponge that absorbs states and sensations. For me, dance represents the primitive meaning of a return to life,” Simon Tanguy
By choreographing the solo ‘Japan’ in 2011, Simon Tanguy admitted his hyperactivity and anxiety related to death. This solo evokes agony through the search for a specific physical and poetic vocabulary. Tanguy explores “the contraction, the release, the fainting, the waking-up, the coma, the own fight, the collapse, the fall, the resurrection, the slow death, the fast death, the testament, the last words and returning memory.” All these different movements are condensed into a Surrealist world that combines the principles of improvisation and composition.
Source : Maison de la Danse