We don't dream deeply with objects. To dream deeply, you have to dream with materials. Gaston Bachelard, Water and Dreams

A dancer is locked between four transparent walls.

At the center of this space, a bathtub, also transparent.

Outside this plexiglass prison, a musician evolves the music of his viola violin as the dance progresses.

 

Separated but animated by the same desire for freedom, their communication is the result of the contact of matter. Water and plexiglass become their field of experimentation. Liquid against rigid, movement against immobility, interior and exterior, contrasts are at the heart of this dialogue each time renewed.

 

From a defined plot, the two interpreters leave room for improvisation to play the game of a concrete relationship with water, a matter that is constantly changing.

 

The aquarium marks the beginning of a cycle of water research that will lead to two creations: The Aquarium and Baby Ploof.

 

Water is a fascinating material: moving, living, adaptable, incompressible, vigorous and calm. It is the raw material, whose universal symbolism evokes rebirth, renewal, regeneration. Death of an old life to revive a new one. Pleasant regression that takes us back to the origins of the unconscious.

Choreographic research is a work on matter and constraint. Space constraint: the aquarium is small, the bathtub is even more so. The dance reverses the relationship between outer and interior space: the body opens in contact with water. The perpetual movement of water is inscribed in the bodies of the two interpreters.