Tuesday, April 01, 2008

Rehearsing for 21:13

This is some, fairly sketchy, footage of a 21:13 rehearsal. The ideas in this film are preliminary attempts at finding physical transpositions of the struggle we have to connect with others when we don't share the same language.

Les Jeudis

Here are two of the pieces I perfomed at the Pompidou Centre as part of their Jeudis.

The idea behind the project was to try to take something from the works, be it the colours, the dynamic, the themes, the space, and transpose them into a short passage of movement. We then performed them in the rooms, in front of the works themselves.

The first is based on the works of Christian Boltanksi. It is concerned with memory, loss and the effort to pin down a 'true' self.

The second is based on 60s French Pop-Art. The room is filled with images of espionage, bright colours and grand attitudes, all of which we took as inspiration.