Fix Me

A total change of register for Alban Richard.

After the medi­ev­al bal­lads of Nom­brer les étoiles (Count­ing the Stars), with Fix Me, the cho­reo­graph­er and artist­ic dir­ect­or of the CCN de Caen en Nor­man­die is turn­ing his atten­tion to com­pletely dif­fer­ent sources of sound energy: the ser­mons of Amer­ic­an evan­gel­ists, polit­ic­al speeches and fem­in­ist hip-hop songs. Con­struc­ted accord­ing to the move­ments of a clas­sic­al sym­phony, this new pro­duc­tion for four dan­cers once again explores the struc­tur­al rela­tion­ships between music and dance, but this time in dia­logue with the vibrant syn­thes­izers and pulsat­ing drum machines of Arnaud Rebotini, an emblem­at­ic fig­ure on the French elec­tro scene. Does the body have the power, equal to that of the spoken word, to har­angue? To fas­cin­ate crowds?

Fix Me, whose title plays on a triple mean­ing – it can be inter­preted as “repair me”, “look at me” or the act of tak­ing drugs – is “a cho­reo­graphy that seeks to trans­form the per­formers’ bod­ies into a power that can­not be reduced to their organ­isms alone”.

The dan­cers’ ges­tures trans­late the intens­ity of the dis­course that the audi­ence hears only par­tially: the bod­ies are moved by the tex­tu­al flow, rhythm and tone of these words, by their raging desire to con­vince. Move­ments tran­scribe the word flows.

Work­ing from the concept of the shim­mer, Jan Fedinger­’s light­ing design envel­ops the per­formers and spec­tat­ors in the same hyp­not­ic and vibrat­ory space. Out­do­ing each oth­er in the energy they unleash to cap­ture the audi­ence’s eyes and ears, music and dance inter­act closely until the bod­ies are pushed to exhaustion.

Source: CCN de Caen en Normandie (learn more)