Sur la nature des choses inivisibles

Sur la nature des choses invisibles #1 is part of a multiform cycle of performances and installations for spaces outside the black-box. A durational performance for two performers and a motorised lighting object.With this work, we invite the public to immerse themselves in a place of attention and concentration, where other ways of looking and relating to the sensible are proposed. Our aim is to create environnements that alter the experience of time, shift the gaze and open up other spaces of the imaginary.In this first part, #1, the performance is built on a cyclic structure, in which performers, sound composer and scenographer interact live.In between prayer and warrior dance, contemplation and resistance, the choreographic composition unfolds around two primary energies that constitute the human being and our way of being in the world. Like Giacometti’s Walking Man, who stands between fragility and a conqueror’s attitude, physically projected forwards.The choreographic material is inspired by gestures and postures from the iconography of early civilizations. A period where animist and polytheist beliefs interwine. The representation often had a magical power and aimed to convey the intimate link between the human and the invisible things. Through a process of sedimentation, reprise and transformation, the gestures and postures trace contours of a ritual and stand as survivals of a common heritage.The cyclic dynamic of actions, music and of the object, is articulated over principles of ruptures, variations, accelerations, degradations and restarts. Little by little this environment invite the spectator to wander, to decide what to look at and to take the time to encounter something.