“We’re not here to hate the vessel we’re born into and that we use to navigate this world. Life is too short for that.” Confronted with the imperatives punctuating her own life and those of many others, Meytal Blanaru responds with resolve, but without fudging any questions that might arise. Dark Horse is imbued with the act of listening to the body in all its dimensions, something taught by this dancer and choreographer who is fascinated by movement as a tool of transformation. It is a tool she uses here to examine aesthetic canons, the devaluation applied to our own bodies, and the gaze that we direct at other people’s bodies.
The simple set and lighting ensure that the whole space is available for the sound and for her presence, her naked torso, her painted chest. Like a filter, a mask, but like an X-ray too, positioning the audience on both sides of the epidermis. Scanning, segmentation, oscillation and undulation inhabit the body-vessel that has been with her throughout out her life, in a brief, sober and intense celebration.
Création 2023 / Création et performance : Meytal Blanaru / Musique : Benjamin Sauzereau / Dramaturgie : Ido Batash, Olivier Hespel / Lumière : François Bodeux / Production, communication et diffusion : Katherina Vasiliadis
Production : Fathom High Asbl / Coproduction : Charleroi danse, Les Brigittines, Studio Thor, POLE-SUD CDCN Strasbourg
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Présenté dans le cadre de Femmes de Mars
