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Plateau
Ana Rita Teodoro’s two new works Plateau and Pavillon are part of a project she has been working on for several years: Délirer l’anatomie, a series of four choreographies centred on the body’s orifices (mouth, anus, nose, etc.) and on the organs that link inside and outside (intestines, lungs, stomach, etc.). Each performance in this project is devoted to a part of the body which, in isolation, becomes a poetic object. Ana Rita Teodoro’s work as a performer and choreographer crosses disciplines and draws on her research into palaeontology, anatomy, Chinese medicine and qi gong. This invariably results in fascinating and free pieces that explore and shift the function and fiction of the organs that she chooses to celebrate.
Plateau
Observe the knee and its key role in walking, in people’s ability to propel themselves, to move around. Also observe its social function over the centuries, from representations of the adoration to submission: genuflection imposes the desire on the rest of the leg, a symbol of the domination exerted by the person before whom one must genuflect.
