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Tippeke
A screening of Tippeke combines several equally important approaches, merging the different parameters of choreography, film and musical writing.
A screening of Tippeke combines several equally important approaches, merging the different parameters of choreography, film and musical writing. The 20-minute film was shot in the forests around Brussels in March 1996.
The protagonist, Anne Teresa De Keersmaeker, tells/sings/dances an old Flemish nursery rhyme about a little boy who does not want to go home. The story reveals a recursive sequence of nine threats one after the other : a little dog who does not want to bite Tippeke, a stick that does not want to hit the little dog, a fire that does not want to burn the stick etc. reaching the point where all the domino pieces have fallen and it starts again in reverse order: yes, the little dog does want to gobble up the mouse, and the mouse does want to jump on the rope and gnaw it, and the rope wants to jump on the cow and tie it up etc.
For each key word there is a corresponding danced movement; for each concept a harmonic colour deduced from “multiphonic” nodes selected on the low strings of the cello; for each type of discourse in the nursery rhyme – affirmative, questioning, negative – there is a way of executing it, a way of associating different sound data: voice, cello and the sound atmospheres in the film.
In this round of interactions, the voice is subject to particular treatment: formants filter the cinema-like ambiances, there is a wind chorus in the trees, motorway noise and a blazing forest accompanying its modulations; the consonants are underlined by percussive sounds sampled on the cello (Ti-Pe-Ke…) before the rhythms which are unleashed reinforce the dynamics of the dance.
The accumulative structure of the story makes dance “necessary” too, a continuation of the cello/multi-diffusion soundtrack and cinematographic journey.
Thierry De Mey
Credits
Director Thierry De MeyChoreography and dance Anne Teresa De KeersmaekerMusic Thierry De MeyIn collaboration with François Deppe, Serge Lemouton, IRCAM/Centre Georges PompidouPhotography Aliocha Van der AvoortCamera Aliocha Van der Avoort, Thierry De MeyEditing Boris Van der Avoort, Isabelle BoyerSound Peter PerntAssistants to the director Peter Pernt, Pascal Gigon–Produced by Rosas In collaboration with Inscape, Thierry De Mey, Jan Roekens
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Dernière mise à jour : novembre 2012
