GøL4M
World Premiere at the Théâtre des Deux Rives/ CDN de Haute-Normandie
November 29th 2014
as part of the Festival Autumn in Normandy
GøL4M may be an anthropomorphic form vectored by computer – which comes to life …
It borrows this prototype from science fiction, projecting into the dancer’s presence the essence of a synthetic being …
GøL4M could then prefigure in successive stages, a hybrid form of Man, in a technological laboratory, a strange ritual …
GøL4M thus designates this “alchemical” project, a global designation including the being and its environment, the search for a formula and its balance, digital, geometric and biometric.
Electricity is the central medium of this work. It is the bridge between the flesh and silicon, the spark of life and magnetism: an invisible force field which we will render sensitive and/or palpable through the body of the dancer.
GøL4M is thus both a laboratory choregraphic work on the amplification and the mediatization of the recorded movement, and conversely, the execution of that movement in a field of external forces experienced by the dancer.
GøL4M is a mutant form which brings together the digital body and the real, physical, organic being.
Here all the elements harmonize progressively to form something indissociable and tragic …
Direction: Frédéric DESLIAS
Assisted by Gael L.
Choregrapher/Performer: Matthew MORRIS
Assisted by Christine CARADEC
Designers: Elisabeth Bikond Nkoma & Rafaël Guiavarc
Original music: Jean-Noël FRANCOISE
Lighting Design: Simon DESPLEBIN
Video: Dimitri BLIN
Software/Hardware development: Olivier GUILLERMINET & Gael L.
Stage management: Pierre André Goursolas
Sets: Salem Ben BELKACEM & Pierre André Goursolas
Thanks to House of Nines for costumes.
Production : Le Clair Obscur
Coproducers and partners: Le Triangle – Cité de la Danse (Rennes), South East Dance (UK), Take Art (UK), ODIA Normandie, Région Basse-Normandie, Conseil Général du Calvados, City of Caen, DICRéAM / CNC, CDN of Haute-Normandie, Ménagerie de Verre of Paris, Les Ateliers Intermédiaires of Caen, Festival Automne en Normandie, Hippocampe of Caen.
This piece is a product of the European program DANS-CE DIALOGUE 2.
Credits: Darren Guy, Gaël L.
