Tecnical needs
 

Extract vidéo, shoot in Denkemp by E.Schrijver int 2010:
(on youtube)

 
 


The coffer

 

A tango


Two coffee please!

There is a note.
There is a step.
There is a woman who is moving forward.
As she is lifted by the music she is passing a major turning point.
Where she is coming from and where she is goingare sentences left in abeyance.

Step by step, in this casual café filled with solitudes,
she is giving shape to her desires,
her doubts and her extravagances.
For a sad thought moment
she is dancing a solitary tango
in which the other is a pretext, a desire…

Then the madness is racing,
the heart is quickening,
we are crossing a new stage,
we are taking off from the inside…

 And the violin becomes an orchestra

About the show

A woman invites herself at a café table.

We do not know much about her if only a few objects in a suitcase and this profound feeling of solitude without either a beginning or an end.

She invents herself stories. Under her fingers and in her eyes the objects come to life and invent the man, the companion long enough for a dance and for an encounter.

But the woman is friable. Her dream decomposes and puts itself together again continually

Between illusion and reality, she is taking us on the brink of her madness with a disconcerting fluency and happy nature.

The energy of the quest radiates from her. It is sometimes gentle and sometimes painful. Sometimes vibrant with emotion and terrible at other times…

There is an energy that is soaring in stages. It is taking us on a trip somewhere, inside of ourselves.

Hélène Doussot

The place:

The choice of the station café is not trivial.

A station is a transit place. It is a place in brackets that only exists because of the origin and the destination of the traveller. It is a place where one thinks of oneself in the future or in the past but it has no actual reality.
It is a place that does not exist.

The café is the place for social interaction and from then on may become a place for absolute solitude when nobody accompanies you.

 

Duo for a dancer and a violin.: Création 2008; Duration : 30 mn

L'équipe :

Laetitia Couasnon:chorégrapher-dancer

Jérémie Elis: musician composer- player

Rémi Jacob: décor


Photos de Joris Hol pendant Chalon dans la Rue, en2008.

 
   

The musician:

He is present as a soul of the place. He can be leaning on the counter, playing the young woman’s thoughts or maybe breathing them into her. It is also thanks to his music that he is bringing her back to her reality: she is sitting alone at a café table.
The music composition will include sound effects, repetitions, sound atmospheres, and sound work.

The violin was chosen because of the immense variety of emotions it can convey and because of a personal taste as well.

 

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