This creation is located where choreography and video intersect, bringing together three entangled topics for consideration : the body, its image and identity. The stage set-up is bi-frontal, relying on the principle of time-delay.
A dancer is filmed in real time and then after 30 seconds, his contribution is projected on to a screen. It is then copied by other dancers. The choreography is based on a combination of two games : Cadavre Exquis* and Chinese Whispers.
It works by the principle of simultaneous accumulation and distortion through the copying of movement.
The body/image relationship is diverted, thwarted or corrupted : the body is filmed, but the reappearance of the image is deferred. As a result, what you see is not yourself but always someone else. So the mirror is false, it is a delayed-action mirror.
This performance won the prize VIA 2010 of the CeCN – Centre des écritures contemporaines et numériques – in Mons (Belgium)
This project won the prize “Bains numériques # 1” du Centre des Arts d’Enghien.
*Cadavre Exquis : a game in which a group of people contributes in turn to make up a drawing of elements of a body. No member is aware of the others’ contribution.
