From the Boston Institute of Contemporary Art to the Venice Biennale and from the Festival d’Automne in Paris to the Melbourne Festival, Faye Driscoll’s performances are unforgettable experiences. Weathering is no exception: both fascinating and unsettling, it pushes back the physical and mental boundaries of the performers. Also those of the audience, who cannot imagine what they are about to experience… The piece involves ten performers whose bodies intertwine and whose movements spark imperceptible changes that lead to a final cataclysm. The dancers and singers express themselves in many different ways: through gesture, voice, smell, sweat, breath, saliva, and the heat that gradually emanates from the group. They seize hold of a glacier-like white mattress in the centre of the stage (a nod to the famous Raft of the Medusa, here emerging in the Anthropocene), every gesture causing them to slip and slide and activating the others’ bodies. The score has a butterfly, beginning in motionless silence and moving towards a chaotic crescendo. Faye Driscoll, a sharp observer of the human condition, prefers wildness and freedom to glamour and polish as she evokes the state of the world and how urgent it is to learn to live in it.
Avec le soutien de l’Onda.
Avec le soutien de la Villa Albertine et de la Fondation Albertine
