Myriam Gourfink, un Temps autre

“Un Temps autre” focuses on Myriam Gourfink’s “Corbeau”, “Les Temps tiraillés”, “Choisir le moment de la morsure” and “Marine”. Eric Legay highlights her process’ complexity by recording her work sessions and performances.

Un Temps autre is structured around 4 works by Myriam Gourfink: Corbeau, Les Temps tiraillés, Choisir le moment de la morsure and Marine. By capturing the work sessions and the actual performances, Eric Legay throws light on the complexity of the choreographer’s approach. Infinitely slowed down, guided by breath, dance is transformed to be perceived as never before, in a renewed relationship to time and space. 

Myriam Gourfink uses yoga techniques to elaborate movements of extreme slowness. For her, only breath, linked with the ground and air, can motivate them. This attention paid to breathing leads dancers towards another perception of the self and of the space surrounding them. The heart of the film is dedicated to the creation of Temps tiraillés, created in 2009 on a composition by Georg Friedrich Haas from a commission by the Ircam (Institute for Research and Coordination in Acoustics/Music). In this work, Gourfink submits her choreographic score to her six female dancers by means of suspended LCD screens. Invited to participate in its evolution, the dancers take time to focus on what they feel in the infinite elongation of gesture and also on how bodies brush past each other and meet. An experimentation where the multiple possibilities of the score allow the choreographer to create multiple imaginary spaces.