Unknown coefficient
Project in progress
Project developed within the Matière Mobile company
The Unknown Coefficient project began with a research and experimentation phase in 2022, and will continue with the creation phase in 2024/25.
The moment when it all comes crashing down on us!
Unknown Coefficient, a contemporary dance piece for five performers, seeks to break down an instant in order to unwind it, turn it inside out and bring out its beauty and horror. The moment when opposing forces come together to create a single material: power/fear, perseverance/abandonment, rebellion/regard. Creating a dance of contrasts between jerk and flow, aestheticism and emotion.
The subject is the coexistence of opposite emotions at the moment when of the break, when the reasonable no longer exists! The first source of inspiration for this piece is Jacques-Louis David's painting Les Sabines, representing the moment just before the confrontation, the clash, a stopped moment. Just before violence and gentleness, blindness and rebellion, intertwine.
Credits :
Concept, choreography : Marie Gourdain
Performers : Nicolas Garsault, Guillaume Ippolito, Fanny Pouillot, Alice Lambert, Naïs Arlaud (and Gabrielle Weisbuch during the research phase)
Sound design : Thibault Cohade
Scenography : Matisse Bahut and Marie Gourdain
Costume design : Françoise Léger
Light design : Zuzana Režná
Production : Collectif STP for the Matière Mobile company
Parteners :
In 2022/23 - Experimentation and research
2022 : CND Lyon ‐ artiste en expérimentation
2022 : Trois CL (Luxembourg)
2022 : NTH8 in the frame the program Transformations #1 of La Maison de la Danse
2022/23 : The SUBS, residency at the MECS of Oullins.
In 2024/25 - Creation
2023/24: La Maison de la danse, Transformations #2
2024: The Gallo-Roman museum of Saint‐Romain‐en‐Gal
2024: The cultural centre of Schloss Bröllin, DE
2024‐25: The MECS of Oullins.
2025: LOFFT ‐ Das Theater, DE
Photo : Trois CL and Romain Tissot
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