Already in Sa prière, the presence of her mother Marie-Bernadette intuitively imposed itself, sparking a desire to create a documentary film and a play and to transform her words into a sound score. Suffering from Alzheimer's disease, her mother began to dance with her hands and face, and a new language developed: "She has a personal, uncodified language of gesture, experienced in the present." Malika Djardi watched her, listened to her, filmed her, and a duet score gradually emerged, informed by their shared memories and anecdotes: intimate, sensitive material shaping a corporeal, textual, rhythmic, and visual narrative that explores her own choreographic practice. Martyre brings back "moments of grace we experienced while dancing together" with, in counterpoint, Malika Djardi's presence against a backdrop of popular refrains and an eclectic playlist that everyone can identify with – a way of sharing memories around a pop hit, a waltz, a tango, or a cha-cha-cha... Throughout the various filmed or danced sequences, their dialogue “takes us on a journey through spaces, the private and the public, the constrained and the infinitely large, the intimate and the worldly".
Martyre
Malika Djardi - STAND
Lyon
Malika Djardi dances her life with a desire to explore the intimate and the external and strive towards the universal. After a first solo about her mother's conversion to Islam, she continues their dialogue in an autobiographical and documental narrative on the language of two bodies that mirror one another.
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Duration : 1h 15
Age : 12 and over
Where ?
KLAP Maison pour la Danse
Carsharing available here from June 3
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