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Les yeux dans les yeux
Recorded at the Centre national de la danse in Pantin 22 February 2013
Geisha Fontaine and Pierre Cottreau present a new work, with Japanese influences, combining dance, text and film. What will the bodies, the words and the images allow us to see? Let’s open our eyes!
An old dancer goes to Japan to research Spinoza’s treatise on the rainbow. Spinoza is the perfect philosopher for dancers, having developed a “practical philosophy” in which the body is very present.
Japan makes an impression on the dancer in several different ways. As she does not speak Japanese and the majority of the Japanese speak only their own language, she devotes herself to tirelessly observing the country, its shapes and its details. She questions things, gradually becoming more perceptive. Little by little, she starts to do what she sees; she is inspired to finally do something different and relies on Spinoza’s treatise to physically drag her gaze somewhere else.
“Les yeux dans les yeux” is the performance of this adventure.
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Updating: June 2013
