Opus 05 on Revisited Cameroonian Mvett

The fifth installment in a series begun in 2000 and built around the theme of rupture, Opus 05 is a solo composed for himself by choreographer James Carlès. In it, he explores the foundations of his own commitment to dance.

Opus 05 was created in Toulouse at the Théâtre des Mazades in January 2005 as part of the international festival of the Centre de Développement Chorégraphique – C’est de la Danse Contemporaine.

Opus 05 opens with a few movements bordering on immobility, a few gestures just to position oneself where one needs to be and how one needs to be. A few gestures to be able to start exactly from that place. Opus 05 then unfolds a choreography driven by time, the time of the body in long durations or sudden accelerations, the time of the music in its repetitive rhythms, time stretched, contracted, until it can no longer be sustained, until exhaustion, then finally, calm.

The dancer embarks on a long journey. An inner journey of every man who is searching for himself.
Who must choose.
Alone.
Despite the obstacles, the traps of pretense, the weight of his origins.
Choosing for himself and by himself, at the risk of leaving behind what he has always been.
Daring to break away.
Repeatedly, he looks into the distance, hesitates, rushes forward then retreats, must move forward at all costs, treads water, loses himself in order to find himself.
Falls in order to rise again.
To simply “be.”