Objets Re-Trouvés [teaser]

Le répertoire des danseurs, c’est une partie de leur histoire d’interprète et c’est une richesse insensée. C’est autour de ce matériau que j’ai pensé et articulé cette création. Qu’elle est leur part de subjectivité dans ce large spectre de répertoire ?

« Dancers are captors of reality, they seize a part of the world, and  translate it for us in their bodies and through their dances. They have  developed amazing capacities to register and store the memory of  movement and imagination. Throughout my years as dancer/choreographer, I  have had the opportunity to actively observe dancers attempting to  understand their mechanisms of perception, their strategies of approach,  and their incredible capacities to mimic.

This project is articulated around what the dancers of this company possess in common, a shared repertory that is, part of the heritage of dance history. How, from this starting place, do we allow the subjective and creative side of each individual to emerge? What does a performer do to re-live their role, what do they tell themselves in order to re-activate a choreography, what fiction do they invent for themselves? What is that unnamed part alongside a  set choreography? At the Ballet de Lorraine, some of the dancers hold  more than fifty roles in pieces that are for the most part of a  contemporary nature.

The repertory, their repertory, is part of their story as performers,  and is of the utmost wealth. It is upon this material that I reflected,  and articulated this creation.

What do dancers say to  themselves when they dance for the umpteenth time a repertory piece? We  must enter into the minds and the imaginations of the dancers. We must  read in their bodies this incredible voyage of the poetics of dance.  This creation is a tribute to the dancers, to their strength, to their  creative power.» 

Mathilde Monnier