The duo, a deceptively simple choreographic challenge

The duet becomes the privileged space of the artistic question, eminently choreographic, of the duality between 2 poles fundamentally capable of opposing or agreeing : representation or incarnation. Thinking about it, not without mischief, might as well dive in and linger on… Un duo d’aimants.

“Duo d’aimants” could be both translated in French by a pair of magnets or a pair of lovers. If “opposites attract”, “like attracts like”. Between the two popular maxims, to circumvent the problem of a standardised face-to-face or closed on itself, and to speak today of today, 4 dancers, 2 men and 2 women, participate in the creative process…

VERSUS offers itself as a choreographic unfolding with substitutable bodies. The approach is therefore cold, to lead to the definition of figures on which infinite imaginations can be projected. The play flows as the emotional partners change, each appearing for each other as a mirage rather than a reality. The main protagonist is desire, its advent, its fall, when the renewed couples of dancers multiply possible representations of it.

A unique musical dimension is created by electro composer Angelos Liaros Copola, to become a suspended moment torn from the flow of time, heats this space of shared intimacy. Into the languor of the sound loop slips off-screen. In the off-screen doubt interferes… What to translate, by form, of feelings of approach, abandonment, passion, consumption, languor, ambiguity or evidence, but also of refusal, rejection, violence, influence or jealousy, which can nourish with substance a composition of the shock of love?”

— Michel Kelemenis