Oggi, niente... [Aujourd'hui, rien...]

[Today, nothing…]

A creation focusing on death and the process of grieving.

« In Turkey, when someone dies, the family sets a pair of the dead person’s shoes in front of the house, so that a poor person may take them and wear them. This custom leads us to believe that the lost deceased relives and continues to walk on Earth, thanks to the feet of someone else. The phantom of the dead loved one walks in his footsteps.

The exploration of time constitutes the framework for this creation. Time moves between a specific moment in the past and the memory of this moment which becomes the physical companion of the body alone on the stage. The body exists at that moment, lives that moment and is affected by the memory. The main question is simple: how can we deal with the constant memory of our mortality or is it actually impossible to face it?

As a choreographer, my attention focuses generally on the notion of physical risk. This has led me to work from the texts of Cesare Pavese and Sarah Kane […]. I understood that it was time for me to emphasize the fragility of the human soul now that I had explored the fragility of the human body […]. »

Ilyas Odman

Updating: September 2011