A.LTER S.ESSIO I France
ENDURANCE
Choreography: Yum Keiko Takayama, Gianni Joseph, Nelson Reguera
Concept, visuals, sound, programming: Fabrice Planquette
Dancers: Yum Keiko Takayama, Gianni Joseph
Text, voice: Arnaud Michniak
Costumes: Fabrice Planquette, Yum Keiko Takayama
Typography, drawn: Cécile Attagnant
Video: Thierry Wilmort, Sophie Leconte
Light design: Julien Dufour, Gaëtan Lajoye
Administration: Charlotte Auché
Duration: 45min.
PREMIERE
Endurance can be presented in three forms (films, performance and video-installations) following a common construction in four parts : wait, being there, falling, clearing. These different elements cross each other, answer each other or grow independently.
This piece relates a feeling of general confusion where everyone don’t know anymore what is looked for. It is a quest without goal, an vain pursuit, a search for something forgotten or lost or fixed somewhere, in memory, in a hazy zone.
It is an impossible meeting between the two characters and a frustrating wait of something that could happen but never comes.
Two characters deprived of contacts, wandering in an empty cage where are mixed together many scenarios of past, present and fantasy. They both move in an alternation of individual ways, breaks and short collective developments.
She: as unreal, obstinately grabbed to a line without horizon. He: masked, can’t voluntarily see, hear and say, he is only preoccupied by the conquest of a territory just using his smell. A representation which oscillates between fight and game, before a general collapse.