(Research Residence )
L'animal a l'esquena (Celrà)
From 20/08/2011 to 09/09/2011
Presentation :
On 08/09/2011 at 20:00 in L'animal a l'esquena (Celrà)
Baro d'Evel circus Company
( Baro d'Evel circus Company, Camille Decourtye, Blaï Mateu Trias )
BUSCA. It is a research, a dive, a quest to their inner animal. It is starting off a search for a mystical or real horse, like a ceremony, a sort of rite, a research, like an obsession to release the body, to let it take the power. It is playing with the bodies as with sound boxes, playing with the bodies as with canvases, to enter the intimacy of the breathings of expirations it is a path towards indigence, a constant search. It is being under a red rain, like in a cave, the matter transforms the space, overflows, squashes,
is poured and then cleaned. It spills, glides over the bodies, reduces the movement and
leaves marks, masks, clowns. The paint as matter, mother earth, the one changing seasons, the one putting the rhythm to our life cycles, like the time that passes and is encrusted under the skin.
We wanted to return to the showroom to go back to basics, to get us back into research and provide ourselves with the means to focus on our know-how. We will be two on stage, because there is the desire to find ourselves facing each other and reviewing all our possibilities...We see this project as a necessary step in the company's artistic research to be able to open further doors. If certain themes start coming out, if the lines of work are emerging, we would like to go on building our creation in accordance with our usual method: from the encounter with other artists and our research in an isolated way, the lines of force on which this next show will be built are born; this is how Ï or Le Sort du dedans were created, whose drama and coherence are affirmed and legible.We will register this creation in a multi-disciplinary and cross-border dynamic while collaborating with French and Catalan artists who will enamel our course: the creation of Ï has rooted the French-Catalan identity of the company and the forthcoming creation will reaffirm this double culture that denotes the uniqueness of our company.
LANGUAGES
Exploration of content:
For this new project we will work on the animal issue, looking for the transformation places, the crossroad between man and beast, between man and horse.
We will focus our attention on the fragility of these crossings, the road between 2 balances, between 2 rhythms, between 2 emotions, between 2 bodies, 2 colours, 2 beings. We will try to capture these moments, these unstable places, there where the body trembles when searching immobility, at the border between the domain and non-domain, between instinct and intelligence. The important thing perhaps lies in what happens between the pauses between the peakswhen one gets lost, when the body must find the solution,it is in these crossings that one can trap the other, feel him, find him, there where no more is demanded, there where we let go.... because nothing goes as planned, everything changes, we adapt continuously, without even realizing it.
The movement:
We will seek to free the horses we are. Relying on the pace, we will try our human legs to become animal legs, our bodies to find the instinct. In this search for the primitive movement, we would like to provoke the metamorphosis of the body, giving rise to dreamlike images. We will continue our search in the "portés" (hand to hand acrobatics), acrobatics and jumps. We want to make these sensations of instability, of micro-motion, of unbalance visible; search the sketch to have another look on the performance, making it more intimate To reveal the problem of living together with our body work and the movement between us: What is the difference between taking and supporting? Does the need for the other deprive us from our freedom?
The music, the voice, the words:
The sound research will consist in trying to understand the inaudible, the clearing of the throat, the blows, the frictions. Through the music we will try to create beats and vibrations with the bodies as a symphony within. We want to deliver sounds that submerge us in the natural elements like rain, wind, snow, heat and cold. We want to work on the vibration, use the bodies as sound boxes, make a rhythmic percussion work with our body and hands, building on the rhythms of the horse: walk, trot, gallop.
The sound of the impact of the paint on the canvas and the floor will be voiced: while looking for the movement to become a line, the line will become sound.
The paint:
If today we feel affected by some prehistoric paintings, by the mystery that arises from naive art, or from the art of the fool, or the street graffiti, it is because these forms evoke in us a vital link with the forces of good or evil, with the harmony of the cosmic order, with the natural cycles...
Antoni Tapies
We will carry out a scenic and plastic search:
We will use the paint as a tool, a means of transformation, and not to illustrate action.
We will try to use the paint for its texture, its pigments, the mineral matter to paint the bodies; the matter will have to be part of the movement.
We want to play empty and full by flooding the stage with matter, the paint should be like an external force, like the natural elements.
BUSCA
Two beings in search of their inner self
because humanity overcomes them
because they have lost their instinct
because the world goes too fast,
too many words, too many letters.
Then their mouths open and release the words
like flying acrobats,
their throats become caves,
they have ancient traces on the wall,
their heads jump into the void,
they start to gallop and jump the barriers.
They want to find their first sensations
preparing, seeking in the ins and outs of daily life
the doors open towards the beginning of all
before the standing men
before the thinking man
be no more than four legs
breath, blow, breathe
find the first breath
the starting point
be a being who breathes
and regards the world
HORSE
"It is a form of obsession, like a mystery
in which the key is searched for every day,
and if for an instant, it is found,
the next day it changes colour.
To be with a horse is to try and
understand someone without words,
and when the word is removed,
what is left is the energy, the instinct, the instant.
To be simple, clear and without bad intention
is what a horse asks for.
We humans are almost incapable,
as what we truly want is love, devotion;
that is why the meeting between
these two beings is so captivating"
Camille Decourtye
"He is who we would want to be at times,
without him knowing, he thinks, asserts,
imposes
he does what he wants, what he likes
what he feels, he let's it know, he let's it feel
he releases freedom
he is a clown,
he listens with the eyes
and talks with the ears.
we try to talk like him,
look like him,
exist like him,
he is a rock star! "
Blaï Mateu Trias
L'animal a l'esquena (Celrà)
From 20/08/2011 to 09/09/2011
Presentation :
On 08/09/2011 at 20:00 in L'animal a l'esquena (Celrà)
Baro d'Evel circus Company
( Baro d'Evel circus Company, Camille Decourtye, Blaï Mateu Trias )
BUSCA. It is a research, a dive, a quest to their inner animal. It is starting off a search for a mystical or real horse, like a ceremony, a sort of rite, a research, like an obsession to release the body, to let it take the power. It is playing with the bodies as with sound boxes, playing with the bodies as with canvases, to enter the intimacy of the breathings of expirations it is a path towards indigence, a constant search. It is being under a red rain, like in a cave, the matter transforms the space, overflows, squashes,
is poured and then cleaned. It spills, glides over the bodies, reduces the movement and
leaves marks, masks, clowns. The paint as matter, mother earth, the one changing seasons, the one putting the rhythm to our life cycles, like the time that passes and is encrusted under the skin.
We wanted to return to the showroom to go back to basics, to get us back into research and provide ourselves with the means to focus on our know-how. We will be two on stage, because there is the desire to find ourselves facing each other and reviewing all our possibilities...We see this project as a necessary step in the company's artistic research to be able to open further doors. If certain themes start coming out, if the lines of work are emerging, we would like to go on building our creation in accordance with our usual method: from the encounter with other artists and our research in an isolated way, the lines of force on which this next show will be built are born; this is how Ï or Le Sort du dedans were created, whose drama and coherence are affirmed and legible.We will register this creation in a multi-disciplinary and cross-border dynamic while collaborating with French and Catalan artists who will enamel our course: the creation of Ï has rooted the French-Catalan identity of the company and the forthcoming creation will reaffirm this double culture that denotes the uniqueness of our company.
LANGUAGES
Exploration of content:
For this new project we will work on the animal issue, looking for the transformation places, the crossroad between man and beast, between man and horse.
We will focus our attention on the fragility of these crossings, the road between 2 balances, between 2 rhythms, between 2 emotions, between 2 bodies, 2 colours, 2 beings. We will try to capture these moments, these unstable places, there where the body trembles when searching immobility, at the border between the domain and non-domain, between instinct and intelligence. The important thing perhaps lies in what happens between the pauses between the peakswhen one gets lost, when the body must find the solution,it is in these crossings that one can trap the other, feel him, find him, there where no more is demanded, there where we let go.... because nothing goes as planned, everything changes, we adapt continuously, without even realizing it.
The movement:
We will seek to free the horses we are. Relying on the pace, we will try our human legs to become animal legs, our bodies to find the instinct. In this search for the primitive movement, we would like to provoke the metamorphosis of the body, giving rise to dreamlike images. We will continue our search in the "portés" (hand to hand acrobatics), acrobatics and jumps. We want to make these sensations of instability, of micro-motion, of unbalance visible; search the sketch to have another look on the performance, making it more intimate To reveal the problem of living together with our body work and the movement between us: What is the difference between taking and supporting? Does the need for the other deprive us from our freedom?
The music, the voice, the words:
The sound research will consist in trying to understand the inaudible, the clearing of the throat, the blows, the frictions. Through the music we will try to create beats and vibrations with the bodies as a symphony within. We want to deliver sounds that submerge us in the natural elements like rain, wind, snow, heat and cold. We want to work on the vibration, use the bodies as sound boxes, make a rhythmic percussion work with our body and hands, building on the rhythms of the horse: walk, trot, gallop.
The sound of the impact of the paint on the canvas and the floor will be voiced: while looking for the movement to become a line, the line will become sound.
The paint:
If today we feel affected by some prehistoric paintings, by the mystery that arises from naive art, or from the art of the fool, or the street graffiti, it is because these forms evoke in us a vital link with the forces of good or evil, with the harmony of the cosmic order, with the natural cycles...
Antoni Tapies
We will carry out a scenic and plastic search:
We will use the paint as a tool, a means of transformation, and not to illustrate action.
We will try to use the paint for its texture, its pigments, the mineral matter to paint the bodies; the matter will have to be part of the movement.
We want to play empty and full by flooding the stage with matter, the paint should be like an external force, like the natural elements.
BUSCA
Two beings in search of their inner self
because humanity overcomes them
because they have lost their instinct
because the world goes too fast,
too many words, too many letters.
Then their mouths open and release the words
like flying acrobats,
their throats become caves,
they have ancient traces on the wall,
their heads jump into the void,
they start to gallop and jump the barriers.
They want to find their first sensations
preparing, seeking in the ins and outs of daily life
the doors open towards the beginning of all
before the standing men
before the thinking man
be no more than four legs
breath, blow, breathe
find the first breath
the starting point
be a being who breathes
and regards the world
HORSE
"It is a form of obsession, like a mystery
in which the key is searched for every day,
and if for an instant, it is found,
the next day it changes colour.
To be with a horse is to try and
understand someone without words,
and when the word is removed,
what is left is the energy, the instinct, the instant.
To be simple, clear and without bad intention
is what a horse asks for.
We humans are almost incapable,
as what we truly want is love, devotion;
that is why the meeting between
these two beings is so captivating"
Camille Decourtye
"He is who we would want to be at times,
without him knowing, he thinks, asserts,
imposes
he does what he wants, what he likes
what he feels, he let's it know, he let's it feel
he releases freedom
he is a clown,
he listens with the eyes
and talks with the ears.
we try to talk like him,
look like him,
exist like him,
he is a rock star! "
Blaï Mateu Trias
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