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1/8
Choregraphy and dance Emmanuel Eggermont
Scenography Emmanuel Eggermont
Light Agathe Mercier
Music S. Gainsbourg and H. Purcell
Production Compagnie Emmanuel Eggermont and Latitudes Contemporaines festival
With the support of Conseil Régional Nord-Pas-de-Calais
In partnership with la Maison Folie de Wazemmes (Lille), Buda Kunstencentrum (Courtrai), la malterie (Lille).
Emmanuel Eggermont has won the prize « Envie d'Agir / direction régionale et départementale de la jeunesse et des sports Nord Pas de Calais»
Duration 45 mn
“« 1/8 » is a solo performance that puts the spotlight on some paradoxes in today’s society and the individuals of which it is composed. In a world that is so proud of the progress it has made in terms of communication we are however increasingly confronted with social isolation.
What is our position really concerning this delicious solitude that locks us up and suffocates us?
The main character of this performance has made the choice, not really deliberately, to live in anonymity so that he can avoid all confrontation, the sharing of feelings, even simple outside contact. In fact, he is confronted with himself, in search of his identity.
In this show, he is alternately director and performer, absorbing the atmosphere created around a precise graphic organization that hides a true internal chaos.
My research is principally focused on personality flaws and the irrational nature of decisions people often take. Decisions that are often the fruit of an internal duality between positive and negative, feminine and masculine, yin and yang, two aspects of human nature. These are inseparable opposites; relief can only be perceived in connection with pain, happiness in connection with misfortune, movement is only perceptible with regards to immobility…
Concerning choreographic construction, I take inspiration, among other things, from « combine painting », an artistic process using assembling and “combination”.
I equally pay special attention to the creation of a particular atmosphere for this creation. I often think of Edward Hopper's paintings where, although the faces of the characters reveal no emotion, it nevertheless emanates a climate of tension, loneliness and alienation.
Here scenography is minimalist and efficient. It represented an interior, but leaves it up to the spectator to specify details through their own recollection and imagination.
Dance can express internal and profound sensations. From an apparent minimalism, it is above all sincere, organic, and respects a technical and aesthetic rigour.
A free interpretation of the combination of ideas and the physical sensation aims to appeal to the spectator’s own intimate and personal experience, while reflecting about the reality that surrounds us. In France one person in eight lives on their own…”
Emmanuel Eggermont