L’œil la bouche et le reste
The pre-human
After a series of solos, Volmir Cordeiro has created his first work for four dancers. In L’œil la bouche et le reste, he invites you to change your perspective on sight. He starts with the eye and then extends his exploration to all spherical things: the sun, an egg, the moon, an arena. He has created a dance that aims to express the physical movement and behaviour of the eye: crying, staring, winking, spying… The interior, the hidden and even the pre-human and cannibalistic is exposed in this intense, almost obsessive inquiry into dance, and into the ineffable itself.
• This is Brazilian dancer and choreographer Volmir Cordeiro’s first appearance on the Kaaitheater programme. He has previously performed on our stage as a dancer, however, in The Clean and The Dirty (2016) by Vera Mantero.
‘That’s what I call the rest; the thing without a name, which cannot be looked at, subterranean, lost and unattainable; this matter capable of making us close our eyes and then cry out inside, and open our sight towards what we dare not look at. Dancing a dance that is embodied by the eye, dancing what the eye is unable to retain when it is in the process of looking, dancing what is left over in us, forgotten, rejected, set aside, dancing the obsessive fear of what one sees.’ – VOLMIR CORDEIRO
choreography Volmir Cordeiro | performers Volmir Cordeiro, Calixto Neto, Isabela Santana, Marcela Santander Corvalán | lighting Abigail Fowler | sound design Cristián Sotomayor | sound manager Arnaud Delacelle | costumes Lucas Ossendrijver, assisté de Boramy Viguier | outside eye Carolina Mendonça, Ana Paula Kamozaki | audio description Sabine Macher (FR), Selina Van Gool & Priscilla Poldervaart (NL) l administration and production Margot Videcoq and Charlotte Giteau | production Margelles | co-production CN D Centre National de la Danse, Le Quartz Scène Nationale de Brest, Centre Chorégraphique National de Caen en Normandie, Ministère de la Culture et de la Communication, Arcadi Île-de-France, Adami, Département de la Seine-Saint-Denis | presented by the European The Humane Body-project | co-financed by the EU’s Creative Europe programme | thanks to Slagerij Etienne (Forest)
Luisteren naar een voorstelling
Visuele prikkels overstemmen vaak geluid. Maar wat als je aangewezen bent op je gehoor en tastzin? Op uitnodiging van Kaaitheater en Europese partners presenteren twee kunstenaars werk dat mensen die slechtziend of blind zijn ook kunnen ervaren.
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