Myriam Gourfink

Glissements

Archive 2019
Performance

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Conceived and choreographed by Myriam Gourfink
With Carole Garriga, Deborah Lary, Azusa Takeuchi, and Véronique Weil
Music, Kasper T. Toeplitz
Musicians, Kasper T. Toeplitz, and Elena Kakaliagou
A coproduction by Les Spectacles Vivants – Centre Pompidou (Paris)
In association with Musées d’Orsay et de l’Orangerie (Paris) ; and Festival d’Automne à Paris
With support from CND Centre national de la danse (Pantin) and Centre chorégraphique national de Tours
First performed on the 12th April 2019 at Centre Pompidou (Paris)

With Glissements, created by Myriam Gourfink for the Nymphéas rooms at the Musée de l’Orangerie, the sliding movements on the floor and in the air gradually build up into a continuous flow. Together they invite us to take a fresh look at the work of Claude Monet.

Immerged in both the Nymphéas rooms and the live music of Kasper T. Toeplitz, four female dancers slide, slither and undulate simultaneously. In their search for space, they set up volumes, curved, broken lines, via a choreography which continuously unfurls and recomposes itself, on the verge of the incomprehensible and the imperceptible.
By the choosing the components of the movement, meaning the small unities which enable the different factors to be evaluated precisely – weight, time, space, flow -, the choreographer invents an open partition and a sensorial space-time which renders the dance visible, an infinity contained in the finite.
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Running time : 30 min

See also

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septembersept 25 – 28

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septembersept 21 – 22
Musée de l’Orangerie
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