2021
This subtle, indicative out-of-range area, this indescribable element, this chance thing that pierces through and awakens something inside, a sensitive zone, and touches, pricks, and brings it to life.
This new creation is inspired by a quote: “a dancer in motion produces the same curves and straight lines that a painter or sculptor inscribes in immobile matter […] art is always an orchestration of presences, in time and space”. (František Kupka, 1923). Yuval Pick examines dance as a form of measurement in its relationship to architectural space. The infinite possible combinations of bodily spatialities and choreographic trajectories can all be seen as spatial entry points to the choreographer’s universe. Yuval Pick seeks not only to push the body to its limits, but also to create different spatialities, depending on the breadth of gestures and the form of movements; spatialities that progress from curves and lines to polyhedra, allowing the construction of a space that corresponds to a work.
Yuval Pick was originally inspired by the work of painter Cécile Bart, whose scenographic art features a variety of heterogeneous pictographic forms created by the superimposition of translucent membranes to produce a weightless chromatic mosaic.
The choreographic writing is further enriched by an investigation into the diffusion of sound; drawing inspiration from La Chambre Claire (Camera Lucida) by Roland Barthes, Yuval Pick immerses the senses in an attempt to forge a passage (seeking the right moment) from the studium, which belongs to cultural and social constructs, to the punctum, this subtle, indicative out-of-range area, this indescribable element, this chance thing that pierces through and awakens something sensitive inside. In this way he examines dance as rhythm in its relationship with “kairologic time”. In a certain sense, then, Kairos expresses a mastery of the indomitable, the capture of something fleeting and elusive, the wait for the auspicious moment when everything is decided and takes a favorable turn towards our desires and actions.
This real-time production, which presents a solo in different exhibition spaces, also references Stanley William Hayter and the American school of abstract expressionism from 1950 to 1960, the experimental work of Ḥasan Šarī, Edi Dubiens and the construction of identity, etc.
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Around the creation
Kairos teaser
Choreography: Yuval Pick
Choreographic assistant: Sharon Eskenazi
Solo performer: Madoka Kobayashi
Sound creation: Max Bruckert
Lighting: Sebastien Lefevre
Costumes: Gabrielle Marty
Produced by CCNR/Yuval Pick
Residencies: Frac Franche-Comté / Cité des arts
© Sébastien Erôme