"the cave" - premiere
Wed, Jun 26
|Lille
A research project initiated in 2022 as part of the "Mondes Nouveaux" funding, this performance showcasing an intimate relationship between a dancer and a parietal cave will be performed for the first time at Latitudes Contemporaines Festival.
Time & Location
Jun 26, 2024, 7:30 PM – 8:30 PM
Lille, 50 Rue de l'Europe, 59000 Lille, France
About the event
is the story of an encounter, or of a series of encounters: an encounter between a body and an environment - that of the cave in the French region of Dordogne. In contact with these walls engraved with human and animal motifs over 13,000 years ago, the choreographer Pol Pi experienced a double movement of decentering and widening; within the bowels that go deep into the earth, he felt a call to decipher and incorporate the existence of these multiple presences - to pass on something of what this place has to teach us.the cave Combarelles
It is also the encounter with the guide at cave Monique Veyret, and her attentiveness in reading these fragile silhouettes, in learning the grammar of the lines laid on the stone by the light of a grease lamp. Here, the back of a lioness, there, the head of a horse, the…