Programme court avec essorage

At the instigation of the visual artist Gilles Touyard, the dancing bodies in this work respond to a spatio-temporal constraint—that is, a washing machine cycle.

At the instigation of the visual artist Gilles Touyard, the dancing bodies in this work respond to a spatio-temporal constraint—that is, a washing machine cycle. The two dancers, positioned on two revolving platforms, are slave to the spinning of their minimal choreographic space. The rotation, the rhythm, the speed, all have impact on the experience of the dance: the movement responds to the environment, namely to gravity and to the centrifugal force, which vary depending on the rotation of the platforms. With this cooperation between machines and bodies, Boris Charmatz and Julia Cima—now replaced by Eric Martin—underscore the value of equilibrium and disequilibrium in dance, and explore the frustrated movements distorted by the constraints of the wash cycle. The choreographic dramaturgy has been replaced by a mechanical system, which brings out the drama of the gesture, the construction and deconstruction of dance movements, the trial-and-error, the elusiveness, and the fragility of the body in motion. Danced at 360°, “Programme court avec essorage” explores an important aspect of Boris Charmatz’s work: his physical engagement with the dance, surpassing the dancer’s mastery in order to achieve an unstable state of the body. This work often incorporates “Statuts” (2001–2002), an exhibition project of variable geometry.

Source : Boris Charmatz

More information :

http://www.borischarmatz.org/