"The Antecedents" begins in Zürich, in the Langstrasse district.
I come and go there, to melt more into the carnal nightlife of the streets and clubs, as a place of observation and meetings for my writing work. There, more or less, the numerous workers who have come from far away mingle. Transsexuals for a great number; young and old.
The prostitutes lure; they establish the public space as a matriarchal space, a jungle of sororities, of open air trafficking. The appetizing mimics, the plastic silhouettes, the ambiguous encounters: the desire is reconditioned.
The bodies exile from earth to be silent and the skins exile towards a plasticity in suspension.
Opaque contact. She insists, I insist, with fear.
I WANT TO DANCE IT WITH MY SHOES ON.
Playing and thwarting sex through one's own body is an act of resistance as much as it is a choice of survival.
The dance is drawn like a mime. It is a mute song, the irons of the steps ooze this de/vowed body."
Anna Gaïotti
In partnership with
Klap - Maison pour la danse
Production
LOVALOT
Coproductions
Ménagerie de Verre, Kunstencentrum BUDA
Accueils
Tanzhaus Zürich, GMEM Marseille, Montévidéo Marseille
Support
DRAC Île-de-France and DICRéAM - CNC
Aide pour la réalisation de la captation - NEXT, Institut Français et La Rose des Vents Villeneuve d'Ascq
Anna Gaïotti
Writer, choreographer
Anna Gaïotti articulates her artistic language in a plural relationship between text, dance and music. Her work extends her experiences of off-stage dance, the experimental music scene and her travels. Coming from performance art, she stages bodies through radical means, willy-nilly, where she aims at confronting choices and non-choices, doubts and norms, fiction and reality of a personal or common identity.
Clément De Boever
Dancer
Clément De Boever is an acoustician, F.M. Alexander® technique teacher and dancer, who studies the links between somatic practice, dance and salaried work, through the observation of the body-mind relationship, the experience of self-presence, the relationship to the other, to the environment and to norms, and the openness to the unknown that this discipline allows.
Sigolène Valax
Musician
Sigolène Valax is a musician and digital artist. She attended Christine Groult's electroacoustic composition class at the Pantin Conservatory (DEM). She holds a master's degree from Ensci, Paris, in creation and contemporary technology. She produces electroacoustic and radio pieces, sound creations for live performance (Un qui veut Traverser, 2015) and offers interactive sound installations (L'arbre aux Rêves, 2015, La Cabane aux Esprits, Festival 12×12, Résurgences, Futur en Seine, 2016, Serpent-air, EXIT festival, Onirochromes, Urban Spree Berlin 2018, Nuit Blanche Paris 2019).
Léo Dupleix
Musician
Born in Paris, in 1988. Léo Dupleix studied jazz piano at the Brussels Conservatory. He founded The Unrevealed Society, a jazz band that won awards in several festivals (Ghent jazz, XL jazz.)...
Estelle Gautier
Creator and lighting director
Estelle Gautier's work revolves around the notions of commitment, decision, narrative and perception. She considers that her work is to create forms and to support them at all costs, whether it is to confront urgently a visible world, very real, but also petrified of a part of imaginary and of abstraction of this real.
KLAP House for Dance
5, avenue Rostand13003
Marseille
RATES
Full : 8 €
Reduced : 6 €
Evening pass : 10€*
*Including "Nuée" at 21H00
DURATION
1h
Anna Gaïotti
conception, text, choreography
Clément De Boever, Anna Gaïotti
dance
Léo Dupleix, Sigolène Valax
music
Anna Gaïotti
costumes
Estelle Gautier
creation and lighting control
Mateo Provost
multicasting and sound management