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Alexandre

CN D - Centre national de la danse 2018 - Director : Centre national de la danse, Réalisation

Choreographer(s) : Pi, Pol (Brazil)

Present in collection(s): CN D - Spectacles et performances

Video producer : Centre national de la danse

Integral video available at CND de Pantin

en fr

Alexandre

CN D - Centre national de la danse 2018 - Director : Centre national de la danse, Réalisation

Choreographer(s) : Pi, Pol (Brazil)

Present in collection(s): CN D - Spectacles et performances

Video producer : Centre national de la danse

Integral video available at CND de Pantin

en fr

Alexandre

This piece was originally created as a duet with Sorour Darabi. For  artistic reasons, it then evolved into a solo in which the question of  the same and the other, of identity and a double are worked on in the  same body.

At the beginning, a voice: the recording of a timbre, a  breath, like the appearance of a radical otherness. At the beginning, a  language: a rhythm, a phrasing, a repetition, a meaning that slips  away. From this voice a series of questions affecting language is born.  What can dance do with a voice: attempt to approach the world it  transports at the border of meaning, or redeploy a movement in the  depths of its intensities, or its frictions, so as to reconstitute its  own system of sensation and interpretation? After a journey through the  physical, linguistic or anthropological questions raised by this  recording, concerning a male rite of passage, Pol Pi has produced a  piece – while making this forename the pass word to a possible transformation. As in her previous creation, Ecce (H)omo, the departure  material sets the coordinates of a new sensitive territory. First  accompanied by the performer Sorour Darabi, then alone, Pol Pi has  tied a knot, an interweaving, in which has been curled a reflection  about the construction of what is the same and what is different.  Between her body, her voice and her imaginary doubles there arises a  ritual navigation between the near and the far, fusion and cut-off,  dream and reality, masculine and feminine.


source: program of the CND

Pi, Pol

Pol Pi is a Brazilian trans choreographer who has been living in France  since 2013. Pol worked as a musician for over 10 years and he’s  interested in a broader understanding of dance, working on memory and  temporality, language and translation, and the notions of archive in  dance, with special interest for in situ work. In 2017, he founded the  NO DRAMA company and created the solo pieces ECCE (H)OMO (2017),  ALEXANDRE (2018), Me Too, Galatée (2018), LÀ (2019), Schönheit ist  Nebensache (2021), le trio daté·e·s (2020) and IN YOUR HEAD with the  Solistenensemble Kaleidoskop, which premiered in the Montpellier Danse  festival in 2022.

Centre national de la danse, Réalisation

Since 2001, the National Center for Dance (CND) has been making recordings of its shows and educational programming and has created resources from these filmed performances (interviews, danced conferences, meetings with artists, demonstrations, major lessons, symposia specialized, thematic arrangements, etc.).

Alexandre

Artistic direction / Conception : Paula Pi

Artistic direction assistance / Conception : Rachel Garcia

Interpretation : Paula Pi

Artistic consultancy / Dramaturgy : Gilles Amalvi - Pauline Le Boulba

Lights : Florian Leduc

Sound : Gilles Amalvi

Other collaborations : Accompagnement en pratiques somatiques Violeta Salvatierra - Interprète pendant le processus de création Sorour Darabi

Production / Coproduction of the video work : Enregistré au CND le 24 mai 2018 dans le cadre du festival des Rencontres chorégraphiques internationales de Seine-Saint-Denis

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