Olympia

Recorded at the CND 6 October 2016

Olympia crosses the stage, naked. In her right hand she holds the book Asphyxiante culture by Jean Dubuffet. She strolls around before settling on an unmade bed, in a pose similar in all aspects to the Olympia painted by Édouard Manet. She stares at the public when, suddenly, a muscle trembles, in a movement involving her entire body. Each gesture she sketches then becomes an unfinished possibility, in resonance with that quest that Vera Montero pursues relentlessly to understand what dance means, what the artist can say through dance, and what he or she says at the very moment they are dancing.

Source: programme of the CND