bang bang is a personal—and therefore universal—contemporary ritual that allows the body to express itself at its most combative and desperate, at its most free.
A present-day study about surpassing oneself, bang bang is a stage creation for a kamikaze soloist that has resistance as a theme. The work follows a score that is also an ordeal. It both literally and figuratively questions the notion of performance, from the space of representation to the metaphors of our contemporary Western pace of life.
Progressively, sweat begins to trickle, faults become alive, the intimacy of being appears in the background. The performer dances until he loses himself, until the why and the how stop making sense, until the necessity of presence has vanished. All the while, the spectators travel along through kinesthetic empathy.
No narrative, only a lonesome body, immersed in the exhilaration of an ordeal in which pleasure and suffering mix together and modestly come to life in a paradoxical, ambiguous and multifaceted space.
CRÉDITS
Choreography and performance: Manuel Roque
Rehearsal Director and Artistic Advisors: Sophie Corriveau et Lucie Vigneault
Costumes and Set Design: Marilène Bastien
Lighting: Marc Parent
Soundtrack: Manuel Roque, including excerpts from Debussy, Chopin, Merzbow, 2001 Space Odyssey, Tarkovsky
Production manager : Judith Allen
Production : Cie Manuel Roque
Delegated Production : Daniel Léveillé Danse
Co-production : Festival TransAmériques,
With the support of : Fabrik Potsdam (Potsdans), Maison de la culture Frontenac, Circuit-Est centre chorégraphique, Théatre Hector-Charland (L’Assomption), Les Subsistances (Lyon), L’Agora de la danse, Conseil des arts du Canada, Conseil des arts et des lettres du Québec, Conseil des arts de Montréal.
Thanks to : Indiana Escach, Élise Bergeron, Alexia Martel
Cette production reçoit le soutien de Daniel Léveillé Danse (DLD) dans le cadre de son projet de parrainage au développement et à la diffusion. | Manuel Roque est membre de Circuit-Est centre chorégraphique.
