Photos répétition "A short term effect" :
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Ersatz was a solo show. Today, your new show includes three young female dancers. How do you explain this evolution?
A short term effect is a project designed for 3 mixing decks and 3 female dancers. Just like in Erzatz, this project deals with the desire for dancing, while highlighting the possibility to have everyone dancing, oneself and others. This is made possible through 3 decks and a selection of three mixed pieces of singing. This in turn produces 3 invitations to 3 types of metamorphoses sung by three legendary figures in music: Follow me by Amanda Lear, Slave to the rhythm by Grace Jones and All Tomorrow’s Parties by Nico. For us, the room is a place of jousting where it is also possible to prompt or interfere with the other person’s dance.
Why did you choose female dancers only?
It is not about representing one female gender or another, but rather about dance and what motivates us to dance through games set up by the sound system. All
Tomorrow’s Parties focuses on a little girl pretending to be a lady, Follow me is the reflection of a constantly changing woman, and Slave to the rhythm is more focused on the desire for surrendering
to the rhythms of the machines... We use the observation of the superficiality of these three icons, these night creatures, not imitating them but rather criticising them to highlight a more modern stage presence style. What comes through at the moment is humour: allow ourselves to fall for tricks and at the same time, generate the illusion of believing that what we see is believable. This may be the Short term effect, this disjunction of beliefs that repeat themselves...
Alexandre Roccoli graduated in linguistics and performing arts, and trained as a dancer at the Centre Chorégraphique National de Montpellier with Mathilde Monnier. He has performed in shows directed by Xavier Le Roy, Eszter Salamon, Suzanne Bergrenn and Ariane Mnouchkine. From 1999 to 2003, he travelled the world and trained in Asia in various traditional types of dance, such as Buto in Japan and Kandyan dance in Sri Lanka. He now lives in Berlin.
Choreography by Alexandre Roccoli. With Arantxa Martinez, Séverine Rième, Lola Yonarte. Musicians: D.D, Adrien W. aka Sex in Dallas. Admin: Susanne Beyer. Our thanks go to: Cuqui Jerez,
Mirjam Junker, Alice Chauchat, the team at Ballhaus-Mitte and bbooksz, and everyone who has supported us along the way.
Coproduced by Les Subsistances / Lyon / France, Hau - Hebbel Am Ufer (Berlin), Schaubühne Lindenfels (Leipzig). With the help of: National Performance Network (Germany), German Federal Cultural Foundation (dance project), AFAA and Ville de Lyon. Our thanks go to:
Pact Zollverein, Essen and Ballhaus-mitte.
