QUINTET
choreographical research project
Louise Chardon // AndWhatBeside(s)Death
With Hilde Broeckhove, Lu Marivoet, Frauke Mariën, Kayoko Minami, Laure Myers/under-studies Silvia Costa, Alexandra Georgescu, Kimberley Olsthoorn
30/06 & 1/07 > 20:00
CarWash Theater - Sergeyselsstraat 42, 2140 Borgerhout
3€ (except programmors) / reservations & infos > info.awbd@gmail.com
I wonder if I am now, nowhere else than in the tangibleness of myself.
I am looking to experience the elasticity of time, the timelessness of my bones, the incommensurability
of space, to be unceasing movement, to disappear and re-appear by the flows streaming through me.
This creation is movement, circulation. As air and water submit to the same laws of movement, I wish this creation to be the living expression of these laws, a trance which embraces dancers and spectators.
We are born from a breath, our very first movement, the most intimate, the most internal.
Here I begin, and from here I progress. I become vibration, a vibration that expands and becomes pulsation, breathing, reptation, emotion, aspiration, sigh and silence. This cycle runs through me and builds me up, at every repetition of it I grow. Each of its repetitions is a step to achieve the next one. We exist and transform into the spiral of that cycle, beside each other, between each other. Times and instants are different but the path is the same.
All the value of this choreographical work rests on our breath. I am looking in this creative process
to create a choreography that navigates from instant to instant with no discontinuity into its dynamic growth. I wish to awaken the expressivity of our bodies lifted by deep and essential flux and impermanent tonalities.
The 5 dancers evolve through a cycle which travels from now to birth to re-birth, from elevation to collapse, from condensation to expansion, from primitive to human, skin to clothes, reptilian to bipedal, unknown, recognisable, nameable, dis-recognisable ...
We will elaborate this cycle by studying our breath, from embryonic breathing to the sigh of despair and search for ways to expand their expressivity till they can reach the audience either visually or tactile.
We will elaborate this cycle by studying the poetical structures of our body and the identities they support in us, like for example how would be my lightness if my liver or my spleen would fly and revolve as a bird flock? Or, which would be my feelings of impatience if the diaphragm’s of my body would time my locomotion? How would I scream if my heart would penetrate my vocal cords? …
And, we will elaborate this cycle by studying the primitive organisms and our ontogenetical development, from being a vibration to void, passing by being ourselves.
I would like to stress the fact that this will not be a presentation of the final project, but an elaboration of a few choreographical lines researched in a first period of encounter between me and the dancers. Our attention during this period of seven days went out to movement quality and choreographical language, all based on the communication between me and the dancers. The result of this first research will be shown to give you an impression of the artistic direction we have chosen.
Louise Chardon
