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in a single performance space it presents artists from different cultures and with different life experiences, not as an exploration of difference but with a view to understanding and exploiting our shared assets.
How does a musician feel the dance in his very flesh? How do you construct a work that does away with the traditionnal dance/music and sound/movement boundaries? Is not the musician a dancer, with each note matching a body prt that is affected , or stirred ? Is the dancer not a musician in his use of movement and rythm? This approach, with its blurring of artistic boundaries and domains, has something captiving about it. in a single performance space it presents artists from different cultures and with different life experiences, not as an exploration of difference but with a view to understanding and exploiting our shared assets.
Source : Press Book – Biennale 2006