Une Echappée

PREMIERE 2021

a magical piece made out of practically nothing for 1 dancer and 1 spaces construction
3 years old and up

INTENTION

Escaping the order of things, creating a place of resistance

In UNE ÉCHAPPÉE (AN ESCAPE), the idea is to bring dance and stage props into situations which divert and displace the order of things.

It is by including the imagination and the sense of empathy  which are an intuitive part of dance, and using magical effects possible  in theatre that UNE ÉCHAPPÉE proposes certain loopholes in the order of  things.

In UNE ÉCHAPPÉE, a dancer and a builder of spaces equipped  with nearly nothing build and take apart different landscapes. The props  they use are recycled and change their roles to tell different stories.  The joy comes from observing the simplicity of the poetic consequences  of one action on another.

UNE ÉCHAPPÉE hovers somewhere between a sculptural installation and a  dance piece. The objects and movements combine into droll imaginary and  imaginative settings.

“It is the story of a dancer, girl, woman, grandmother, witch, shaman, goblin, goddess, ogress… In blue, black, pink or made of gold, always on fire and in metamorphosis. She is elusive because she lives according to her imagination and her poetry: it is an escape.

An escape from overly restricted worlds, overly rational reactions, destructive interference.

By escaping from the peloton she quickly shows the free spaces and out of control. She escapes the fears chanted and shouted always too loudly.

She trusts her feelings and her dreams. She bounces, dodges, laughs, flies away, freezes, sometimes disappears.

She is an escape of light, a fragile but resistant spark. It becomes a purple pansy with a yellow heart. She is movement.”

Julie Nioche – Nantes, April 8, 2020