Designed and performed by Yaïr Barelli
Light designer: Augustin Sauldubois
Thanks to Charlène Sorin, Julien Lacroix and Carole Perdereau

Co-production: Le Musée de la danse / Centre Chorégraphique National de Rennes et de Bretagne.
Support: Centre National de Danse Contemporaine at Angers
This show will be performed at NeXt Generation for The NeXt international Arts Festival, Valenciennes autumn 2011

"Ce ConTexte" is an intimate, introspective event, under the public's shower of attention. Text, voice and body bathe in this attention, we can smell odours. Sharing the frame of mind which derives from the performance. Sharing this experience becomes the show in itself, and this show reflects the context on the performer. Struggling towards the continuous unknown. Following one's body's desires, without getting in the way. Delivering an oral report of what is happening now. Speaking a lot, making the most of the power of the language, tickling its boundaries to take out some weight and get down to the body, letting it speak. Sharing the desire and failure to express what we cannot. Without being betrayed by clothes, merely the bones. Trying out the stage as a special place, outside of everyday life. A place for confession, a shower, a bed. A place where we can feed on awareness.

"Text means Tissue; but whereas hitherto we have always taken this tissue as a product, a ready-made veil behind which lies, more or less hidden, meaning (truth), we are now emphasizing, in this tissue, the generative idea that the text is made, is worked out in a perpetual interweaving; lost in this tissue - this texture - the Subject unmakes himself, like a spider dissolving in the constructive secretions of her web."
Roland Barthes, Le plaisir du texte, 1973


© Delphine Perrin