MA

”MA” develops a score of urban images. With 6 dancers described as ‘strollers/passers-by’, lighting by Jim Clayburgh, and the participation of the plastic artists Michel François and Ann-Veronica Janssens as artisans of the full and empty, Pierre Droulers has created a walk-about choreography, brimming over with passages and cracks. From white to colour, from freeze frame to circulation of energies, from abstraction to rage, ”MA” transcends borders, foils the stress of modern fluxes by giving breath to space-times, and in contrast to the scathing reminder of urbanised violences, entrusts to the transit of dance the nomad concern with inhabiting densities, volumes, and journeys. The force field, alive, of an architecture in progress. 

”MA”attempts abstraction, going as far as to strip the stage to turn it into an empty place, ready for new proposals. The starting image is that of the stroller in the city, an ideal walk-about of the individual in the city and in the world. The aim was to try to imagine an ideal place where people could feel good together and at home. Too idealistic. In actual fact, the stripping down to abstraction has created an unbearable situation, generating exactly the opposite effect. Emotions then erupt, and contradictions get tougher. Confusion reigns. 

The stage is not the place where you live. It seems to me that I wanted to empty all contents, move towards a non-project, concerned with people’s capacity to free themselves from all images, all discourse on the world. What I demanded was not to give up but to swallow all words, to be light only and shine in the brightness. No more than that! 

Source: compagnie Pierre Droulers