Warning, sensitive content.
This content contains scenes that may shock an uninformed audience.
Do you still want to watch it?

L'oubliée

Choreography

Hideyuki Yano

Director

Robert Cahen , Alain Longuet

Company

Mâ Danse Rituel Théâtre

Collection

CN D – Centre national de la danse

Year of production

1982

[The forgotten woman]

“Always a part of him, death would be now deliberately at the heart of its work. It would be the starting point for the workshop which led, in January 1981, to the presentation with the studio-theatre D’en Face of a work in progress, aptly entitled “Work in progress n°1”, then of “Requiem”, a piece composed in memory of his brother and performed at the Aix Dance Festival in 1981 […]. “

Source: taken from the book by Chantal Aubry, “Yano, un artiste japonais à Paris”, CND, 2008

The part “Work in progress n°1” led to the film “L’oubliée”, a funeral march with song and masks.

“The five actors/dancers/singers, wrapped in a variety of shrouds, express this attraction-repulsion for the “black hole” of grief very well. The result bathes in the light and white fabrics of Eastern mourning.”

Source: Alain-Paul Lequeux, in the “Pour la danse” magazine, March 1981

Updating: January 2013