héâtre-élévision (pseudo-spectacle)

With this choreographic project, Boris Charmatz proposes a specific format and challenges the viewing conventions governing the art of choreography: the performance hall, the relationship between the stage and the performers, the being-together.

With this choreographic project, Boris Charmatz proposes a specific format and challenges the viewing conventions governing the art of choreography: the performance hall, the relationship between the stage and the performers, the being-together. “héâtre-élévision” is a filmed choreographic work broadcast on a TV screen integrated into an installation intended for a single viewer. From the stage to the TV screen, from being-together to the individual, from the live performance to the image, this work calls on the notion of installation as used in contemporary art and visual arts. To watch this televised “performance,” the viewer reclines on a bench and comes face-to-face with a multitude of dancers gesticulating in the image. The film is neither linear nor narrative, but it contains different forms of theatricality, absurd dances, mysterious spaces which are woven together, without ever creating a single meaning. Filmed at La Chaufferie de Saint-Denis, a former power plant, this film loop displays bodies constrained by space, by rhythm and facial expressions, forms of choreographic contortion which generate a certain feeling of estrangement.
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Source : Boris Charmatz

More information :

http://www.borischarmatz.org/