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(Un) Folded Confessions
performers. Performers: Rebecca Bone, Kevin Ho, Raphaëlle Kessedjian, Kyleigh Sackandy. Music: Murcof, Maja Ratkje, Shujaat Husain Khan, Kayhan Kalhor, Sandeep Das, Tanya Tagaq, Elegi. Text from:”Letter to a young Poet” Rainer Maria Rilke and “Autumn Brocade” Miyamoto. Music editing: Eva Perrotta. Costumes: Sophie Bortolussi. Lighting design: Andrew Dickerson (Un) Folded Confessions explores the physical space that can exist between one, two, three, or four bodies and is an experiment on how those different relationships can open a space for oneself to exist, discover and reflect. The piece is a work in progress, where articulated and deconstructed thoughts meet, cross, and expose their nature in just a few words. Each of the four characters are physically writing their personal stories, revealing themselves, trying to understand and build their individual path, while considering their own shadows. They all become the reflection of one another, nurturing each others inner thoughts. |
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Crowded
Music: Courtney Brown Dancer: Raphaelle Kessedjan Lenght: 25 minutes Premiere: Boston Univerity Theater November 13th, 14th 2009 Crowded explores the theme of vanished memories through dance and sound. Can the past still be alive around us? Can our memories influence who we are? How does the body hold on to our past realities and keep their memory alive in so many distorted forms. In this project, we have been experimenting with live sound, directly connected to the dancer's movements. |
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Hinterland / Site specific performance
Costums: Sophie Bortolussi Music: Codona / Youval Micenmacher and Doumka Clarinet Ensemble / Pauline Oliveros / Taavi Rammar Dancers: Sophie Bortolussi / Holly Colino / Raphaelle Kessedjan / General MacArthur Hambric / Keigly Sacandy / Kristina Skovby / Violeta Tellez Puppeteer: Lindsay Abromaitis Smith Butoh Artist: Vangeline Visual Artist: Michael Pope Lenght: 45 minutes Premiere: May 18th 2009 "Hinterland" is a journey that unlocks the doors to the vast land that opens as we fall asleep. It brings us to that unexpected space we create without controlling our thoughts and feelings. It offers an alternate yet authentic reality. Behind each door, each corner, a world of endless imagery exists, and a path of shifting and transient landscape opens."Hinterland" stretches this brief moment when our body loses control and awaken s into another reality. |
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Elle d' Elles
Puppetery: Lindsay Abromaitis Smith Dancers: Amelie Benard / Caterina Rago Costum / puppet building: Lindsay Abromaitis Smith / Eva Perrotta Music: Iva Bittova Length: 15 minutes A physical dialogue between a puppeteer and a dancer, a mother and a daughter, exploring their relationship via the intimate contact between their bodies and a wedding dress. As a suffocating link between them, the dress is both the beautiful image a mother can dream for her daughter ... And the "woman" she will actually become. |
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CONCILIABULE
Dancers: Kristina Skovby / Sophie Bortolussi / Susana Gasco Rojas Music: Youval Micenmacher and.Doumka Clarinet Ensemble / Frode Haltli / Astor Piazzola Length: 11 minutes This piece explores the dynamics and difficulties of communication. The table is both the obstacle and the excuse for accessing the other person. The two characters enter into this playful game of hiding, finding and discovering each other through their own connection with this table. |
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La Chambre Renversée (The Upside-Down Bedroom)
Music: “Mugam Sayagi” by Franghiz AliZadeh Costume design: Sophie Bortolussi Dancers: Amelie Benard / Sophie Bortolussi / Holly Colino / Emi Komatsuzaki / Pauline Legras/ Kristina Skovby / Hiroko Yanagawa Length: 27 minutes Click here for video The piece La Chambre Renversée (The Upside Down Bedroom) is inspired by the fairytale “Bluebeard” written by Charles Perrault in the late seventeenth century. In this cautionary tale, the seventh wife of Bluebeard opens a forbidden door, only to discover that Bluebeard has murdered his six previous wives and hidden them away behind this door. Although Bluebeard himself never makes an appearance in my piece, he enacts a visible pressure on the other characters. The space, the sounds, the movements, the lights and the shadow betray that he is an acting character, though he never steps foot on the stage. He is felt more than seen. Three lights are involved on stage. The construction of the choreography and dramaturgy involved a specific collaboration with a light designer in order to give the lighting as strong a role as the dancers. The lights are suspended from the ceiling with flexible strings, which allow the dancers to develop an intimate relationship with them by moving them and with them. The lights represent “Bluebeard”: our forbidden place, the hidden truth, the rules we cannot understand, the once known reality of the women. The penitence becomes suffering, The transgression becomes knowledge, The persecution becomes rebellion. In this creation, I developed a strong exploration on the relationships between the movements and the lighting, and all the possibilities I can achieve choreographically and dramatically. |
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CINEMATIKA
Choreography: Eva Perrotta Dancers: Delia Ahouandjinou / Amelie Benard / Holly Colino/ Kristina Skovby / Hiroko Yanagawa |
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Forgotten mine
Music: Jacques Brel Dancers: Holly Colino / Samir M’Kirech Length: 10 minutes Trough the strong interpretation of jaques Brel’s music, we are exploring and playing around diferent aspects of love relashionships. Discovering how attachment to an other person, can bring you to forget your ownself, to destroy or create. Everything is a matter of choices. |
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“Promenades Soporifiques”
Music: Three poems, by Stephan Dunkelman, Zahava Seewald, Michael Grebil Complorate Filiae, by Nicholas Lens Moon Beseeched by Ekova Costume design: Kerville Jack Dancers: Holly Colino / Susana Rojas Gasco / KristinaSkovby / Hiroko Yanagawa Length: 25 minutes "Promenades soporifiques” (Dozing walks), is inspired in the story of Narcissus and builds up around four women and an empty picture frame.The piece focuses on the way people seek to satisfy their egos through romantic relationships, in which they project their own desires on others. The main character slowly gets lost in her illusions and misperceptions of people, while she is unknowingly falling in love with different parts of her own personality that she sees in others. This irresistible attraction pushes her into a confused state in which the line between dreams and reality is blurred. Out of control, she falls prey to her projections and crosses into the other side of the mirror, where she becomes a captive. What she sees in those projections makes her realize that emotionally she is as empty as the frame. She is lonely,cannot find a meaning for her life and is struggling to find love… “Itself remaining unchanged, the soul shows itself only in reflections, which are like one face caught by many mirrors." Plotinus, Enneads, I, 1, 8, 15 |
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CALICE
Music: Youval Micenmacher and the Doumka Clarinet Ensemble Costum design: Laura Gerber Dancer: Eva Perrotta Length: 5 minutes A long time ago, people were going on the top of a mountain to hide their secrets, in a hole inside the earth so they could be free from them. I think I found one of them. |
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Day Dream (Video dance/ Adaptation from the performance Sucré Salé))
Video / Editing: Pascale Servoz Gavin Music: Mathias Delplanques & Laure Besson Costum design: Marie Rousseau Dancers: Sophie Bortolussi / Eva Perrotta / Marie Rousseau Length: 7 minutes " Vision intérieur d'une enfance qui se prolonge et de sa confrontation avec le mouvement du dehors, porté par la trajectoire de personnages a la limite du rêve éveillé." Pascale S.G. http://www.youtube.com/user/scalasg |
