DD DORVILLIER
human future dance corps

Nottthing Is Importanttt is a cinema performance. A suite of three conditions – nine bodies, a movie, and a darkness and sound installation – the work plays with questions about the visible, the visual, and the construction of the imaginary. On a shallow stage in an intimate cinema-like space, a group of nine dancers perform a stream of simple actions reproducing the shapes of objects with their bodies at a slow pace. Immediately following the dancers' exit, a non-narrative movie featuring two familiar but unrelated icons of American folklore is projected on the wall. The movie's soundscore intensifies a rupture between looking and listening.When the movie is over, the audience is brought into a new environment, where the performers continue their tasks in darkness, and the sound shifts from being the element in between, to being space itself, and the architecture and everything it contains.The three parts of the work are related conceptually but not contingent upon one another thematically. Nottthing Is Importanttt plays with the distinctions and similarities between what can be seen, what can be felt, what is known, what is invisible, and what is imagined.