LES MAQUETTES

ECHINE – Jéhane Hamm

Body as support, transformed, a play of bodily materials, schematic body, dissected zones of the body, body laid bare.
"I wanted to explore, starting from the sensation of my spine, different mobilities, worlds, imaginaries and poetics. For this new creation, I give voice to the back, to what lies behind, to what isn't always visible, to what hides, to the unspoken." "Echine" (spine/backbone) evokes the back — both of the human being and of the animal. The body on stage is no longer simply a woman's body, but a body as matter.

LIKE ME – Léa Leclerc

To be recognised, loved, even envied — desires intimately tied to this need for interaction. Digital social networks were born from this very need; they feed on it, and have even reinforced it, to the point of becoming, for some, indispensable spaces for displaying an image of success and happiness — whether or not that image reflects reality. It is precisely from this "or not" that the choreographer, from the Gard region, chose to dig deeper. The question of identity, always more complex than what we choose to show, thus returns as the driving force behind a play of opposing impulses, of contrasting movements and dynamics.
Text by Olivier Hespel for the Uzès Danse festival, June 2022

TROIS COLLIERS – Mathilde Papin

If tinkering means making do with what's at hand, mixing heterogeneous materials, bending things slightly so they fit together, then there also exist tinkered activities, tinkered conversations, tinkered dances, tinkered customs. One might, for instance, combine existing gestural practices into one: engaging at once in tinkering (moving, linking, fitting together) and in choreographic gesture (whether traditional, figurative or abstract). One might draw elements from our customs, from the most everyday (greeting one another, talking, cracking a joke) to the rarest (putting on a fête, singing in a choir, cracking a joke). We will also work with objects — the kind we keep in a corner "because they might always come in handy." So, for example, small offcuts of wood, with their geometric shapes, will become part of invented interactions. This is where fiction comes in: we might act as though we were a credible culture with invented customs. In real life, we could — as much as we like, after all — let customs proliferate, customs that dislodge, as though under the effect of laughter, a few bones in the brain.