Régi

“Régi” is a trio that brings together Boris Charmatz, Julia Cima, and Raimund Hoghe. Accompanied by two machines, this piece works on the inert body, on the weight and the presence of the body in its plain materiality.

Created in 2005, Régi is a trio that brings together Boris Charmatz, Julia Cima, and Raimund Hoghe. Accompanied by two machines—a sort of lifting crane for one human body, and a moving walkway, inclined and curved—this piece works on the inert body, on the weight and the presence of the body in its plain materiality. The dancers seek out simple movements, extreme diminutions of intensity, evoking two fundamental parameters of contemporary dance: giving in to one’s feelings and sensations, and the total awareness of one’s weight. How to make one’s body, subject to mechanical forces, available and receptive? How to be present in the singularity of bodies? Created by the juxtaposition of different material bodies, these sequences do not resonate together—from exposed nudes to insults uttered by Raimund Hoghe—Régi presents an abrupt dance, stripped of any artifice. For Boris Charmatz, “the piece is now called ‘régi,’ because all choreography is an under-choreography . . . beneath its interpreters who absorb it and make it useless, beneath the insults which generate it in the self-affected body of the person ‘who utters them,’ beneath the machines which instantly create choreography. . . .” The selected film clip was realized using night shot which greatly modifies color contrast.

Source : Boris Charmatz

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http://www.borischarmatz.org/