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Mélodie musculaire : Carte blanche pédagogique à Pedro Pauwels
Recorded at the CND 16 December 2005
Pedro Pauwels’ educational carte blanche
These days, scientific and technological advances allow variations in the electrical activity of the muscles, the moving joints and the brain to be picked up by means of electrodes on the dancer’s body and transformed into sound signals.
Building on the experience of his most recent production “Sens”, at the crossroads where dance, science and new technology meet, Pedro Pauwels offers, by way of an “educational carte blanche”, to work with the sounds specific to each family of muscles, based on the concept of “muscular melody”. The sound therefore becomes a means of transposing the sensory experience of the dancer, while at the same time forming a constituent element of the choreographic composition.
This specific relationship between music and dance relies in part on feedback effects, which opens up a whole range of possibilities for improvisations and compositions, as musical as they are choreographic. The dancer can choose to improvise on the melody or to act upon it.
This new parameter explores the “musicality of the dancer” and offers another angle from which to approach the concept.
Trained at the Rosella Hightower Centre in Cannes, Pedro Pauwels has worked for Karine Saporta, Odile Duboc, Elisabeth Disdier, Patrick Le Doaré and Anne-Marie Reynaud. He founded his own company in 1990 and since then numerous productions have confirmed his talent as a choreographer without ever interrupting his career as a dancer.
Updating: March 2010
