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Once the contours of the creation have been drawn, the actual performance will consist of skilfully demolishing this too perfect toy until it disappears.
Description
By accumulating rules, one can easily end up with rigidity or chaos.
But it is more complex and creative to juggle disparate or seemingly antinomic elements, blending the unstable spontaneity of life with our initial thoughts, which we often quickly mistake for the foundations of a single path to follow.
It is a question here for the working group of giving life to a particular and precise scenic object, by accumulation, agglomeration, imbrication, concatenation of desires and ideas of all natures (movement, breathing, systematism of the actions/verb, interaction, glance...) of inspirations so much organic as mechanical or conceptual.
Method
After a brief presentation of the workshop, which will first seek to elaborate action and game modules (classical work), 1 to 2 hours of individual and small group research will lead to the establishment of the elements that will constitute the "head", the "body" and the "tail" of the whole collective performance.
Experimentation and shaping will be enamelled with exchanges and discussions to determine in a collegial way the structures, the locations, the simultaneities and the rhythms, so as to reach a first degree of relative satisfaction with regard to the work in progress.
The notions of dissolution, degradation, devouring... will then be implemented to gradually overcome the initial wills and allow the appearance of an unexpected form, escaping as much as possible from the controls precisely arranged and organized initially.
It will then be up to each of us to appreciate this strange newborn duckling... or not.
Learning to like what you don't necessarily like at first sight is like untucking the flaps of your own suit. Although it doesn't fit as well, you can suddenly breathe better. But above all, you gain a lot by going beyond your own contours. All you have to do is hold on for a while in this uncomfortable passage that leaves a momentary place for what you don't know about yourself at least as much as about others.
What applies to the individual is applicable to the social. The purpose of erasing the overall drawing (design) is to let its general poetic trace live instead, like the ghost of a heavy pencil drawing that has been erased. Here again, the virtues of erasure can be numerous and enriching.
Without necessarily referring to the now overused "less is more" which has itself become a sometimes dogmatic emblem, the relaxation of rules and principles can simply come from the valorisation of uncertainty.
An art form that draws its aura solely from the victorious power of being well understood by many people is also on the way to being a product condemned to never escape anyone again. This is sometimes the case with the famous "good idea" that would be the source of future projects.
We could of course discuss this through a number of examples of works that form the basis of our culture, but it would be better to ask ourselves first of all whether performance requires us to project ourselves into some academic future with corridors lined with radiant recognition, however local and ephemeral. Perhaps the value of the moment escapes the quality standards of a world that seems to conceive of itself only through future generations?
The future, towards which we must turn our eyes here, lies at the end of a curve stretched to infinity towards immediacy
The ambition of "Everything must disappear" is to find a common wavelength for its participants, so that for a brief moment we all perceive the total eclipse of self-confidence that makes the interpreter in true research.
Within the framework of a study nourished by particular interrogations on the place of the public in the performing arts, this workshop is also likely to welcome any person who would not wish to participate otherwise than as a spectator.
The access fee in this case will be identical to that of the registrations and obtained in the same way, via the purchase and reservation system currently set up for each course.
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