Death by Landscape or a second night, Janet, a cadence out of time, une balade dans le bois, a melody sung in darkness, a sting removed by fiction,a waste of time, an act of archeography, a thank-you-dance, a dance to under-grow.

premiere at brut Wien 6 7 8  9 November 2024

if
 Dance
 was 
the pre-text,
 the pre-face 
of inscriptions-traces, grammatically possessed
~
a potential to signify “nothing, in particular”

falling through the fields [the space it requires to think of a field]
an early scorch, nocturnal and sleepy
i once buried sleep in a Belgian garden at night. it was rigid with death

in a way/in a sentence/in an agenda/ in a dream/ in a plot/ in language
we drip-leak caress cailloux, we touch theory
(a dance that takes place outside of relations & long abstractions)

iridescent trails left by cosmetology in the ocean
open the gap between words, insert grace in a geological time , g(l)ossip and sip
weave my dirty palette, a ritual in stillness and mourning lotion

the hollowed-out time
just lining out
while my left arm grazes

a moving group of chemicals suspended by the shoulder straps
pyjama-like trousers co-produce the atmosphere
the atmosphere that allows things not to snap into making sense
down-grade
under-grow
subterranean meows high on night pollen
these travels, milking the soil
our lexical fields in checkered patterns

how not to retain, keep
how to de-solidify
inserting air and words in an articulation; i want to publish words in your knee, under your left patella
it shouts and drops eyes
heart drops, an acceleration of a breath:
there is a piano tune between the palm of my hand and the floor

 

with & by
Cécile Tonizzo, Mark Lorimer, Hugo Le Brigand, Han-Gyeol Lie, a grand piano, Alix Eynaudi 
Sound design and music Paul Kotal together with Han-Gyeol Lie
Light design Bruno Pocheron together with Madison Pomarico
Costumes design An Breugelmans
accomplice Anne Faucheret
films Ujjwal Kanishka Utkarsh

performances at Kaaitheater (spring 2025)

Production mollusca productions coproductions brut Wien, a project of the European Capital of Culture Bad Ischl Salzkammergut 2024 residencies Kunstencentrum BUDA, Volkskundemuseum Wien supported by the Cultural Department of the City of Vienna, BMKOES / Federal Ministry for Art, Culture, Public Service and Sport

This show benefited from the support of the Institut Français d’Autriche