Park de 1998 à aujourd'hui [extrait 1]

An unidentified performative object created in 1998, at a time when the French choreographic scene was undergoing an intense transformation, Claudia Triozzi’s Park is indicative of the breakdown of boundaries at work during that period: a desire to extend dance to other forms, combined with the multifaceted reading of its history – taking into account visual arts, performance, and the cinema. In this work that oscillates between wandering, visual installation and performance, we follow the character of Adina, a female figure subjected to a series of restricting mechanisms – playful or sinister objects that mark out an everyday life rigged with traps. In the course of meticulously composed tableaux vivants, the relationship between this frail silhouette, the environments she inhabits and the machines that she activates, presents a domestic allegory, the absurd nature of which can quickly turn oppressive. Her trapped, reified body, undergoing the repetitive action of the cog-like mechanisms that grip her, subjects the gaze to a radical separation and solitude.

Funny, moving, absent both to herself and to the world around her, this distant sister of Chaplin in Modern Times, or of the woman as object figure created by Lucinda Childs in Carnation, confronts us with a dual critical prism: that of the physical and symbolic control exerted over the female body and of the subjective dispossession induced by the mechanisation of the gestures. With this fictional drift revisiting motley references, Claudia Triozzi has opened up a new field of scenic investigation that, eighteen years later, has lost nothing of its critical power.

Source: programme of the CND