The title Eaedm comes from Latin, the feminine plural form of idem, meaning "the same". Interpreted here as: The same gestures as repetitive pattern, the similarity of the performers, the same frame women are put in, the same battle they have to fight.

Eaedem is a contemporary dance duet based on a choreographic phrase of 14 movements. This strict base, this alphabet, will gradually open up, transform the space around it, change state, go from confrontation to joy, from combat to disco, from ground to air, with vigor and tenacity. The mutation of the vocabulary transports the spectator from one zone of interpretation to another, increasingly surprising. This concept enables me to play on translations of meaning and interpretation of the choreographic material, and thus to reveal the way we read the female body as a cultural construction. 

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At the origin of this duet, the piece The Law of Ice ( Gesetz des Eises ), is the project of a series of three duets for an open-air stage bringing together three choreographers: Marie Gourdain, Maura Morales, and Ruben Reniers, at the initiative of the German curators Martin Stiefermann and Sabine Ghem. This project was developed in August 2023 as part of the MV-tantz-an organization and a three-week residency at Schloss Bröllin. From this piece, this collage, ÉAÉDEM was born, a 17-minute duet.

Marie Gourdain (and the company Matière Mobile) now wants to develop it towards a 25-30 minute format.