Corbeau

Note of intention

"For this solo, I will be inviting: first, an accomplished classical dancer, and second, an electronic music composer Kasper T.Toeplitz. www.sleazeart.com The idea is to base the choreography on the dancer’s ability to elevate her legs, in order to focus on an area, which is rarely accessible with contemporary dancers. I want to work on a dance playing on the extremely slow unfurling of the dancer’s four limbs through space, thus imparting form to that space by embarking along subtle, unexpected directions, created by the projection of the dancer’s body inside spherical volumes, and by accepting the 360 degrees of the circle as an arena of limitless sensorial possibilities. Most of the time, the dancer will be supporting herself using a single leg, and the surrounding environment into which the rest of her body has to extend, is made of air. For me, the poetic force will reside in each atom of air she touches inside the spheres. I see her members as feelers for her feelings that she strives to fashion from the surrounding area. The spheres architecture, such as I imagine it for this project, and the idea of extending the bodyto its furthest limits into the environing air, are closely linked to the music spaces created by KTT, and even partially derive from them. I am fascinated by these musical hurricanes and by the spaces they render for dancing: peripheral spaces whose fuzzy edges are defined by the range covered by the sound. The story about Chinese emperors, who scaled their palaces according to the range covered by a sound produced in a central point, has become my story. Starting from the immateriality of a space created by sound vibrations, from its elasticity spanning from miniscule to infinite, I create ‘bubbles’ of spheres into which the body extends itself. I see the musical space of Corbeau as a swelling of sound waves, a full and immense space “packed to the hilt” for thirty minutes during which the dancer can sculpt her lines. And so it was that calling on the composer Kasper T. Toeplitz, seemed an entirely natural choice."

Myriam Gourfink.

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Source: BIT Teatergarasjen, programme for the performance Corbeau by Myriam Gourfink. 05.08.2010: http://www.bit-teatergarasjen.no/ -archive