Archéologie du geste
Choreographic project on body as archive of archai memories, 2019-2021
© Mira Matthew
ARCHEOLOGIE DU GESTE is a research project based on archaic gesture: preverbal, primitive, instinctive, with a subtle awareness of body in motion.
The idea came from a desire to question the possibility of humans reconnecting with their animal presence: a primary essence even before the verbal language. From this angle, I work the body as a transfer, i.e. as a "vehicle" (quote J. Grotowski in “Vers un théâtre pauvre”, L'Age d'Homme, reprinted 1993), which creates a connection between the conscious and the unconscious, the upper and the lower, heaven and earth, matter and spirit, in order to reveal the inner being who is dancing.
I'm looking for gesture that manifests itself in an 'in-between' space, between two spatial entities that tell us about the present moment and the memory of space, giving voice and body to the unconscious, to what is not controlled, to the magic of the entire flow.
The starting point is the body as a sensitive archive, the guardian of memories that are both personal and archaic, made up of sensations, images and emotions.
From this reserach a performance was born ANAMNESIS.
Concept Francesca Saraullo
Dance research collaboration Florence Augendre
Fellows visiting Cabiria (sound), Morena Brindisi (voice), Mira Matthew, Anastasia Guevel, Estelle Bibbo, Baptiste Conte (dance)
PARTNERS
2021-2019
Studio residency, research grant Charleroi danse (Brussels, BE)
GINcubator21, garage29 (Brussels, BE)
Studio residency, Théâtre Marni (Brussels, BE)
Studio residency, De Kriekelaar (Brussels, BE)
Studio residency, ATLAS ImPulsTanz Festival research program (Vienna, AT)
Studio residency, SUMMERSTUDIOS P.A.R.T.S (Brussels, BE)
SUPPORT
Wallonie-Bruxelles International
teaser research Archéologie du geste, January 2021
Charleroi danse, Bruxelles, Belgium
“C’est l’art de l’entre-deux-corps béant sur l’espace… la magie du corps-inconscient, l’ivresse du possible, la pensée faite corps, la fréquentation de l’être".
Daniel Sibony, Le corps et sa danse
“C’est l’art de l’entre-deux-corps béant sur l’espace… la magie du corps-inconscient, l’ivresse du possible, la pensée faite corps, la fréquentation de l’être".
Daniel Sibony, Le corps et sa danse
© Mira Matthew