Luisance

An enigmatic and stupefying temporality made up of repeated attempts, of bodies who are always late, of intermissions…

The desire is to form a ritual: from trance to statuary…

Dissolved, blurry postures incessantly passing from saint to sultry will petrify in a dramatic crescendo…
A solidification of the form of these two bodies caught in a strangling bottleneck…

The work with the body was carried out from positions inspired by the iconography of the Salpêtrière hospital asylum’s hysterical patients and saints in ecstasy in Baroque paintings and sculptures. These postures, reinvented by the dancers, have been placed in a very constrained space. The choreographic process is a composition revolving around the canon: canon by addition, by subtraction, canon by contrary movement, etc…

Each dancer works along the same choreographic line. There is therefore the choice of a horizontal writing around rhythmic variations. Luisance : a singular and suffocated luminescence, a pale gilt… of which we know no longer whether it recalls a night or a day… an absorbed light…

Source : CCN de Caen en Normandie (learn more)