• GONFLES/Vehicles - AIR
    Création 2016

    Their slowness brings both a tension and consistency until the pivotal point in-between immobility and movement: they are moving without moving in a perpetual movement, awake and attentive.

GONFLES/Vehicles - AIR

PIECE FOR 4 DANcers

Creation 2016 : International Art Festival SETOUCHI TRIENNALE 2016, AICHI TRIENNALE 2016

For this project I choose straightforward protocols for the choreography: dancers converse with each other in a choir. They bind without seeing each other, they are together always and alone sometimes in a constrained space, leading to a form of energy saving.
Here, the breath becomes a link, and the spiral is a specific support in space, for all, in the moving. Listening is at the centre of the dance work. The accuracy of the movement visually contrasts with the nonstandard forms presented here – I play with these extremes that unfold the habits of our look and of our thoughts.

AIR is built as a form made of the accumulations of scripted movements composed with the air and latex costumes or coming from individual or common decisions to move.
Latex structures answer immediately to the impulses of bodies by random resonances. The display of forms and images made possible by the trapped air is both surprising and funny. 

The dancer becomes a real kaleidoscope of forms in movement, crossed by its own energy: he is multiplied and immoderate.
The choreography drags us in the enormous and nonstandard. It arouses our sense of tolerance through a change of our watchful eye – or not – toward this different and extraordinary Other.
The architecture of these new bodies draws a humanity defined by other images: this exhibited hypertrophy questions our visions of what’s human.

I choose a mixed casting with dancers with varied backgrounds (hiphop, contemporary dance) for propositions and energies to be combined: the Inflated swallow up our world gestures, recycle them in order to present something new.

Didier Theron

Dossier de diffusion: 
Représentations: 

AIR

Quimper
Théâtre de Cornouaille – Scène nationale de Quimper
Samedi 10 Février 2018 - 16:30

AIR

AICHI
Aichi Triennale International d'Art Contemporain
Vendredi 21 Octobre 2016 - 16:00 au Dimanche 23 Octobre 2016 - 16:00

AIR

TAKAMATSU
SETOUCHI TRIENNALE 2016
Jeudi 13 Octobre 2016 - 16:00 au Dimanche 16 Octobre 2016 - 16:00

COPRODUCTION

SETOUCHI 2016 International Contemporary Art Trienniale
AICHI Triennal Rainbow Caravan - International Contemporary Art Triennale
COMPANY DIDIER THERON

ReSIDENCE

 Kyoto Art Center, Japan

DISTRIBUTION in progress

Choreography & artistic direction
Didier Théron

Structures
Concept : Donald Becker & Didier Theron
Realisation : Laurence Alquier

Music
John Adams 

Interpretes
Sami Blond, Roméo Bron-Bi, Thomas Esnoult-Martinelli, Joan Vercoutere, Samuel Watts (alternatly)