Hands dismantling a keyboard; a face being licked by an animal; a palm caressing moss in the forest. In Forecasting,  Barbara Matijević takes these truncated bodies interspersed among the  millions of amateur videos available on YouTube, extends them and then  reincarnates them on stage. A laptop screen becomes the point of  intersection between this two-dimensional world, with its banal or  bizarre stories, and a very real body. Created with her long-time  accomplice, Giuseppe Chico, this show humorously plays with the way  technology has changed our relationship to the body, it draws from the  infinite pool of images available to us today. The digital imagination  is amplified and poeticised in a research process that adheres as  closely as possible to the new modes of self-narration.

(source: programme of the CND)

After studying theatre in Italy, Giuseppe Chico moved to Paris in 2000  where he trained as a dancer. For several years he performed with the company Mille Plateaux Associés, and he also worked with George Appaix,  Anja Hempel and Joris Lacoste.
Barbara Matijević and Giuseppe Chico founded the company Premier Stratagème in Paris in 2008.

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.).