UNKNOWN COEFFICIENT
MATIÈRE MOBILE / MARIE GOURDAIN (LYON)
Everything happens at once: this dance piece pauses a single moment and breaks it down into its individual choreographic parts — just before everything collides.
The moment when it all comes crashing down on us! UNKNOWN COEFFICIENT is a contemporary dance piece for five performers that seeks to break down an instant in order to unroll it in time, to play it and replay it, to turn it upside down in all directions in order to reveal its entanglement and bring out its beauty and horror. The moment when opposing forces come together to create a single material: power/fear, con-trol/hesitation, perseverance/abandonment, rebellion/self-consciousness, one movement that drives and the other that freezes. Create a dance of contrasts, jerkiness and flow, aestheticism and emotion.
Choreographer Marie Gourdain is interested in the coexistence of opposites. To the moment when things give way, when the reasonable no longer exists. To the absurd. Her first source of inspiration is Jacques-Louis David's painting Les Sabines, because it represents the moment just before the confrontation, just before the clash, a stopped moment. It therefore contains all the elements that will collide. To clash the danced materials! Mix the motif of violence with that of gentleness, that of blindness and that of revolt. In other words, on the one hand, work that focuses on gesture and posture, with an emphasis on form, and on the other, highly expressive and sensual work, connected to emotion, activating a fluid, dynamic physicality.
From 8 years.
No speech.
Duration: approx. 60 minutes.
The WORKSHOP: LET’S DE-RE-CONSTRUCT_COLLAGE will take place before the performance on Saturday, October 11, at 5 p.m.
A production by Matière Mobile in co-production with CND Lyon – as part of “Aide à l'expérimentation” and “Artiste en création,” La Maison de la Danse as part of the “Transformations” program, and LOFFT – DAS THEATER. Supported by the City of Lyon, DRAC Auvergne-Rhône Alpes, La Fondation Cléo Thiberge Edrom, and the City of Leipzig – Cultural Office.
CONCEPT + CHOREOGRAPHY Marie Gourdain
PERFORMERS Naïs Arlaud, Nicolas Garsault, Guillaume Ippolito, Alice Lambert, Fanny Pouillot
SOUND DESIGN Thibault Cohade
SET DESIGN Mathis Brunet-Bahut
COSTUME DESIGN Françoise Léger
LIGHTING DESIGN Zuzana Režná
OUTSIDE EYE Jean-Christophe Paré
PRODUCTION + ADMINISTRATION STP Production office
PHOTO Romain Tissot / Maison de la Danse
Prices
- Premiere regular: 18,— €
- Premiere reduced: 13,— €
- Premiere Leipzig-Pass: 9,— €
- Soli-Price: 25,— €
- Regular: 15,— €
- Reduced: 10,— €
- Leipzig-Pass: 7,50 €