Recording and research residency.

As part of the Meyer Foundation's residency program for cultural and artistic development.

Un geste sans gravité is a choreographic trio with a strong musical dimension. Three dancers and a rope are caught up in forces and relationships as transversal, horizontal and vertical as gravity. Gravity appears, overturning the established order to usher us into a circular world in which opposites meet and the serious becomes lighter.

Subjected to the tensions and forces exerted in all directions by dance and rope, the three performers gravitate like stars. In these times, when world events are anxiety-provoking, when we are subjected to constraints as tight as ropes, we transform them into apparatus to reverse the trends and enter into a life of weightlessness. We escape through the air.

Un geste sans gravité is rooted in kinetography, a system for writing movement created in 1929 by choreographer and architect Rudolf Laban. Dance, the source of life, exists only through the movement of mass movements and struggles with gravity, as opposed to death, which is merely static. The piece is written in Laban scores. Gesture and sound are linked. The sound composition of the piece is double: on stage and recorded to increase the volumes of the space. Recordings of string sounds densify silences, opening up landscapes of tenuous sounds and sparkles, where pointillist sequences intertwine.

Mentions
Biography(s)
A harmless gesture
Alice Boivin
Residence
Wed. Oct. 22 -- Fri. 24, 2025
Mon. 3 + Tue. November 4, 2025
Mon. 15 -- Thu. december 18, 2025
Distribution

Alice Boivin
choreographer-performer

Artem Naumenko
sound designer

Laure Desplan
performer

Vincent Dupuy
performer

Maureen Sizun Vom Dorp
lighting design

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