Works: Alix Eynaudi + Alice Chauchat

Alexander Wolff

Crystalll

Crystalll was originally created as a black box performance,
referring directly to the history of stage representations of female
bodies, and using light effects to emphasize the magical appearance of
an “unreachable being”.

The white cube version invests more on the position of the dancer-as-object, proposing a similar perspective on the sculptures and the dancer. The spectator is invited to observe images, situations, and one’s own expectations towards beauty, femininity, and a dancer that becomes an object of aesthetic satisfaction.

Shifting the performance to the exhibition space brings about the spectacular expectations towards art, let them be plastic or choreographic; Crystalll reveals modes of enhancing mystery, producing awe, in the meantime as using them in an effective way.

Credits

Choreografie: Alice Chauchat en Alix Eynaudi
Dans: Alix Eynaudi
Lichtontwerp: Bruno Pocheron
Set design: Alexander Wolff
Administratie: Pauline Roussille
Productie: Aire
Co-productie: Maska (Ljubljana), Tanzquartier (Vienna)
Met de steun van Tanzfabrik
(Berlin), Monty (Antwerpen), Künstlerinnenhof Die Höge en Centre
National de la Danse in Paris (voor het lenen van hun studio)