Swiss dancer and choreographer Lorena Dozio continues her quest for the invisible, but this time with words. Her new work focuses on the human voice and the relationship between body and text. In this dissociation between movement and its description, Dozio seeks a way out to make visitors and ghosts appear in a dialogue between life and death.
The choreography deals with the relationship between the environment and the limits of the body. Lorena Dozio explores the description as well as the spirit of the environment, the climate and the sensations that a landscape can evoke. As in a film sequence where the conditions change and gradually transform until the encounter with another body, immaterial but made present by the dancer's movement. Then there is the question of entering the body on stage through "extreme" experiences such as trance or apnoea. What happens in the mind and body during these physical states of altered consciousness?
Sound and sound technology are an important component of the dramaturgy as they allow to conjure presences and absences, to draw the audience into the stage space by creating a sensory immersion through quadrophony. A real-time dialogue between Lorena Dozio's body, Stéphane Bouquet's voice, Kerwin Rolland's sound and music.
conception, choreography and dance: Lorena Dozio
dramaturgy, text and voice: Stéphane Bouquet
sound and music: Kerwin Rolland
music: Carlo Ciceri, Am Flusse de Ins Wasser (Ed. Suvini Zerboni), Ensemble del Conservatorio della Svizzera italiana, Anna Piroli, voice, Francesco Bossaglia, conductor. Live recording on 11 September 2016
lighting: Séverine Rième
espace: Yannick Fouassier
artistic collaboration: Kerem Gelebek, Séverine Bauvais
collaboration on texts and recorded voices: Julie Salgues, Célia Rorive, Damien Brassart
development and distribution: Sylvie Becquet
production and administration: Anna Ladeira, Sergio Chianca
production: Plateforme Crile
co-production with LAC Lugano Arte, CCS Paris and Micadanses
artistic residencies: LAC Lugano Arte e Cultura, Grame, Théâtre Sévelin 36, Danse Dense, Micadanses
Festival Fait d'Hiver, Dansomètre, Centre Culturel Suisse de Paris, Palazzo Trevisan degli Ulivi - Venezia
with the support of : Swiss Arts Council Pro Helvetia, Cantone Ticino - Fondo Swisslos, la Ville de Lugano, Pourcent Culturel Migros, Spedidam, Adami, New Echo System - Palazzo Trevisan degli Ulivi - Pro Helvetia, Fondation suisse des artistes interprètes SIS, Fondation Corymbo, DRAC ÃŽle-de-France - aide au projet.
The audio story in the piece was created from the solo performed by Julie Salgues in Sacre # 2 by Dominique Brun. Julie Salgues performs the role of the Chosen One in Sacre # 2 which was composed by Dominique Brun in 2014. Rite # 2 is a recreation of the 1913 Rite of Spring, with choreography by Vaslav Nijinsky (1889-1950), costumes and set design by Nicolas Roerich (1874-1947) and music by Igor Stravinsky (1882-1971). The other texts accompanying Julie Salgues' account are taken from an article by Jacques Rivière on Nijinsky's Rite of Spring which appeared in the magazine Le Temps on 21 April 1914.
In memory of Carlo Ciceri
