JE NE VOIS PAS LA FEMME CACHÉE DANS LA FORÊT

2010

BETWEEN THE MYTHICAL REPRESENTATIONS AND CHANGING IDENTITIES OF THE COUPLE, PERRINE VALLI PRESENTS THE FIGURES OF LILITH, EVE AND ADAM IN A GRAPHIC AND SENSUAL CHOREOGRAPHY. A BEAUTIFULLY STRIPPED-DOWN GEM LINED WITH SWEET IRONY.

LE COURRIER – BERTRAND TAPPOLET

Distribution

Concept & choreography: Perrine Valli
Performers: Inari Salmivaara, Alexandre da Silva, Perrine Valli
Sound creation: Eric Linder
Lighting & stage management: Laurent Schaer
Video: Akatre
Scenography & costume: Marie Szersnovicz
Chair design: Paul Jouan
Administration: Thibault Genton
Promotion: Aurélie Martin
Duration: 1 hour
Coproduction: ADC-Genève, Festival Faits d'Hiver, Südpol, Mains d’Oeuvres
Photo: ©Akatre

With the support of DRAC-Ile de France, République et Canton de Genève, Ville de Genève – Department of Culture, Loterie Romande, Pro Helvetia – Swiss Arts Council, Société Suisse des Auteurs (SSA), Reso-Réseau Danse Suisse. The project was created during the residency programme “Danse à tous les étages” at Quartz (Brest) and Südpol (Luzern). Valli was awarded the second Premio award in 2009 for a first draft of the work.

Description

With her previous work Je pense comme une fille enlève sa robe, Perrine Valli addressed sexual identity from the perspective of the prostitute. This issue remains at the heart of this new production but rather than looking at it from a societal point of view, the choreographer addresses sexual identity from the perspective of its cultural representations: mythology, religious discourse, couples’ iconography, images of the relationship between men and women…

Alongside this topic, Perrine Valli crafts movement and space aesthetics where narration and abstraction come together, influencing and generating each other, like a game where the story told and the form are built, enhanced and emancipated thanks to the disruptions that each provoke within the other.

TEXT : MAINS D’OEUVRES

Dates

8 October 2011: Festival d’automne Sévelin 36, Lausanne, Switzerland
12 November 2011: Tanzhaus, Zurich, Switzerland
22 April 2010: Danse à tous les étages-Quartz, Brest France
22 September 2010: Mains d’Oeuvres, Paris, France
3 au 14 November 2010: ADC, Geneva, Switzerland
19 et 20 November 2010: Südpol, Luzern, Switzerland

Press

Télérama, Libération, Le Courrier, Metropolis, Images de Danse, ParisArt, Yomiuri, Ether Real, Les Petites Feuilles.

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