Uzès Quintet

Shot during Uzès’ New Dance Festival in 2003, this film mixes the universes of Javier de Frutos, Emmanuel Gat, Kitt Johnson, the Peeping Tom’s, Nathalie Pernette and Andreas Schmid. It has been conceived as a quintet.

Shot during the Festival de la Nouvelle Danse in Uzès in 2003, this film, composed like a quintet, mixes the choreographic universes of Javier de Frutos, Emmanuel Gat, Kitt Johnson, the Peeping Toms, Nathalie Pernette and Andreas Schmid. Transposed and interpreted in a natural setting, between woods and fields, the extracts of their works form a getaway into the landscapes of southern France.

This film does not seek to narrate any specific piece. Catherine Maximoff’s vision of dance focuses on the work of the interpreters, how the body and universes of each choreographer enter into resonance with the environment. By associating very different words, styles and writings, Uzès Quintet blends into matter and time and mixes elements at first sight unrelated. Sky, heat, light and vegetation are as important as the dancers. Movements of ensembles, duos and solos, situations sometimes more theatrical or acted – some images recall the stage and the spectacular dimension of choreographies – have no other purpose than the formation and variations of the landscape and how the dancers occupy, reveal and transform it.

Source : Irène Filiberti