Rémanences

Video installation. Filmed using a thermal camera, the dancers become ghostlike. With their evanescent bodies and moving shadows, they become a living calligraphy, black marks on a white canvas.

Rémanences is a video installation created in March 2010 during professional encounters between the CECN and the VIA festival. It evokes numerous pictorial references such as Francis Bacon’s deformed bodies, Yves Klein’s anthropometries, Mantegna’s drapes and Henri Michaux’s ideograms. Filmed using a thermal camera, the dancers become ghostlike. The warm parts of their bodies show up more than the image, while the colder areas, with less blood flowing through them, seem to disappear. With their evanescent bodies and moving shadows, the dancers become a living calligraphy, black marks on a white canvas.

Conception and direction Thierry De Mey
Created and performed by Manuela Rastaldi, Silvana Suarez Cedeño, Yoann Boyer, Dana Augustin, Volodia Lesluin
choreographic assistant Manuela Rastaldi
Camera and calibration Julien Lambert
Film editor Marjorie Cauwel
Sound mixing Xavier Meeus, Juan Palomba
Stage management Nixon Fernandes
Technical Matthieu Virot
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Production Charleroi Danses, Centre chorégraphique de la Fédération Wallonie-Bruxelles
Coproduction Le Manège.Mons-TRANSDIGITAL / TechnocITé-TRANSDIGITALWith the support of TRANSDIGITAL / FEDER on the occasion of programme Interreg IV France-Wallonie-VlaanderenIn partnership with MAXYS Belgium
Thanks to Jan Delye (FLIR Systems AB) / Lionel Collin / David Bogaert / Pierre Pourcel (www.maxys.be)