Not
Here Not There, art
residency, Romanian
Cultural Institute in Paris, 2008
Artistic
exploration of the concept of time
and the possibility to escape from
it. A song, a dance, a poem, an image.
A poetical, sensorial research of the notion of
time and the possibility to both sense it and escape from it. Time -
not the scientific or the philosophical concept of time - but time as a
being, a subject for the senses, the psyche, the intuitive creation,
the sensed time. The research has an experiential approach,
in the context of an imagined time-travel experience. Not knowing if
she can experience the limits of time, the dancer engages in a play,
letting the body invent a game, a prelude in which she invites Time to
join her as a lover, in a play of unfolding secrets.(...)

Camera Elise Passavant 2008, performance and images Iuliana Varodi 2008 - 2009.
As a continuation of “sanatana mood”, the concept of time
emerged as the centre of my interest currently. Time - not the
scientific or the philosophical concept of time but time as a subject
for the senses, the psyche, the intuitive creation, the sensed time.
What makes the quality of time? Is it its rhythm, its speed, the
alternative density and emptiness of its content? Or is it the impact
that its content (the happenings) have on our perception? Is time a
context that contains everything we can perceive? What is its nature?
Does time exist into something, a larger context? Do we then need to
see that larger context, in order to see the borders / the limits of
time? Do we need to know its size in order to understand it? Or, if we
can understand the meaning of an instance of time, can we understand
it? Can we attempt to redefine the instance of time, as an alternative
to the second – could it be the space between two heart beats,
the duration of a breath? Would that make us change our understanding
of its nature? Ideas around the relationship time-body-mind: When we
really know something, we first become that thing, then we are free of
it, not being hunted by the desire to know it anymore. Thus, knowing
time would make us free of it, which would make time travel possible.
The artistic exploration and its dilemmas are translated into
dance. The approach is intuitive, placing
the word TIME as an obsession in the mind, while the body chases it,
provokes it. The same approach is used when rewriting the poem,
composing the music, editing the video. Body is the expression of
material
life, of nature, of instincts, of temporary, the house of our needs and
actions. Word, logos is the expression of the immaterial, of mind, of
human spirit.
With thanks to Nicolas
Perret & les Mollaires de l'Est, Elise Passavant, Cédric
Caremel, Eléonore Didier, Ioan Contiu, Xavier Faltot, Pascal
Dupoy et David Fenech pour les collaborations et l'aide en
matière de régie, camera, vidéo, audio, musique, montage, étalonnage et pour leur précieux feed back. Filmé au Centre National de la Danse.
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