Alain Fourneu has known Geneviève Sorin for thirty years. She is a dancer, musician, choreographer and improviser; he a theatre director, performance space programmer and provocateur. Alain was there for Geneviève when she was starting out, including several of her shows in the programme of the theatre he directed in Marseilles. Later, since 1995, they combined their respective roles and collaborated on each other’s pieces. Now they come together again in an attempt at a new relationship in which she will play the accordeon and he will recite texts by Raymond Carver.

“We have reached this point, each of us, along a path of increasing austerity. I only wanted the text for my voice, the texture of the voice engaging with and accompanying the words. She wanted only the music, for a dance that would resonate even better in stillness or minimal movement.
The poems of Raymond Carver have not a little to do with our desire to travel this path together, in this way. They speak of presence in the moment, in its banality… something we both often seek. Death stalks the texts, of course, with a calm smile. And we also found Chekhovian inspirations that welcomed us, made us “feel at home” (another phrase we both often use).
This piece could provisionally be given the title of one his poetry collections:
“Where Water Comes Together With Other Water” or “A New Path to the Waterfall”.
Alain Fourneau.