Creation: 22 February 2023, Théâtre de Hautepierre, Strasbourg
Order and Production: Les Percussions de Strasbourg
Musicians: 6 performers
Duration : 15′
Created as part of the “Only” program.
“How do you play with the codes of a dance of detail, abstract, organic, uncluttered, to gradually tip over into a universe that evokes the absurd?
Freely inspired by the characters representing the penguins in the cartoon “Madagascar”, I seek to evoke the image of a commando governed by an intrinsic and uncompromising rhythmicity. The aim will be to create tight links between the performers, with bodies constrained to a certain minimalism, working on rigidity, speed and precision. Finding the place where almost nothing would generate spatial and musical tension, where dynamic changes would occur at the turn of a half-second. We would then see an entity whose coordinated gestures unfold in a natural random logic, punctuated by disruptive actions that are immediately absorbed by the group’s mimetic adaptation. My aim is to convey a form of expressivity that emanates from a self-organized corpus, voluntary and determined by a shared fervor, at odds with the bare essentials of an empty stage, with no apparent music. The result would be a kind of “naive dance”, investing the interstices between form and determination that animate a body“.
Noémie Ettlin