DD DORVILLIER
human future dance corps

Only One of Many, a new collaboration between DD Dorvillier and Sébastien Roux, is fed by a curiosity to see what meanings, affects, images, emerge and transform through the layering of sequences over time; how the perception of the self-same dance or music sequence is affected through its combination with other sequences, and in conversation with the individual experience of each spectator. If the work is “about” anything it's that the non-linguistic perception of abstract forms can be a catalyst for new knowledge and ways of relating to the world.

Perhaps more complex than the accumulation of combined sequences, is the deceptively simple question of what is a single movement or a single sound. If movement, as a fact, is always there, then attributing fictional beginnings and endings to a particular movement, or sound brings movement and sound into the status of something logical that can be seized and defined. We believe that the act of defining sound and movement is a creative and not an absolute one, profoundly reliant on our subjective ability to project into the unknown. It means that many given rules for dance and music are at stake because they can be re-invented, disrupted, decolonized.