Nulle part & partout

Just as speeches have their sub-conversations, bodies have their sub-gestures: tiny micro-changes that constantly modify postures and faces, and accompany our every word almost unconsciously. Myriam Gourfink invests this unique language, which is specific to each individual, with a variable-geometry troupe of 12 to 45 amateur dancers, with the most diverse profiles. Drawing on Rudolf Laban’s movement analysis tools, she has collected this bodily material from them to extract a common vocabulary. Envisaged as a sharing of practices and knowledge, this creative process, which is as important as the final result, received the musical collaboration of electronic composer Kasper T. Toeplitz. The gestures collected then served as reference points, between which the performers experience a “flowing time”, i.e. a diffuse dance that takes place “nowhere and everywhere”. The result is a story of bodies – a tribute to “what constitutes us and at the same time escapes us” – bearing the memory of our identities.

Source: programme of CND