…performance, periphery, pieces and fragments,
piano/forte, photograph, feeble process, fairystep,
almost firm, post fake, pastpresentfuture, phantom's
step... or, air passing through the lips.
pf, pf is a choreographic performance involving a trio of dancers (Damien Briançon, Laura Kirshenbaum, and Marie Orts), an original quadriphonic sound score by Charlotte Imbault, a lighting design by Christophe Cardoen, and a backdrop representing a wall.
Formal relationships between performers, space, and sound are sometimes direct, sometimes ambiguous. There are high contrasts: long stillnesses / vigorous dancing; introspection / projection through space; mute dance / noisy body; invisible singing dancers.
pf, pf embraces the legendary feeling of “not understanding a thing” in contemporary dance, in order to transform each spectator’s sensitive perceptions into a treasure (Gold). Light, body, shadow, sound, language, silence and movement are all poetic elements that this dance employs to make sense of the world while building it.
During the parade of forms that is this dance today, we forge ahead patiently trying not to force a specific result. The performers slipbetween different realities and qualities of being. This produces something that holds the attention. One could describe this slipping as an antidote to the tyranny of the absolute. Thanks to this slipperiness, we are dimensional and not statues. Things breathe and morph. Silences and listening make way for the unknown.
We remain faithful to the precept that dance does not “say” anything specific in and of itself, but can powerfully inspire momentum. This new project is constructing its delicate self in a time of hideous abuses of power that cause anguish, violence, hatred and fear, but also provoke crucial waves of inspiring human resistance.
As a performance-maker I believe that rising to the challenge of being true to my artistic questions, while living in this present, is essential to cultivating a more humane way of being together, where listening, observing, and imagining are precious intangible resources.
Concept and choreography DD Dorvillier
Performers Damien Briançon, Laura Kirshenbaum, Marie Orts
Sound composition Charlotte Imbault
Lighting design Christophe Cardoen
Production and administration Laura Aknin & Rémy Guillet
Calendar
March 31 to April 4 2025 : Research residency – La Fraternelle, Saint-Claude
April 21 to April 25 2025 : Research residency – La Fraternelle, Saint-Claude
November 9 to 14 2025 : Research residency – La Corvette, Évelle, Baubigny
December 11 to 14 2025 : Research residency – La Corvette, Évelle, Baubigny
February 16 to 18 2026 : Research residency – Le Dancing CDCN, Dijon
May 11 to 18 2026 : Residency – Les Ateliers du Milieu, Rouvres-sur-Aube (sortie de résidence le 16 à 19:00)
June 9 to 13 2026 : Residency – Les Bazis, Sainte-Croix-Volvestre (sortie de résidence le 13 à 19:00)
5-10 days in January 2027 : Residency – GMEM, Marseille (sortie de résidence)
March 2027 : Residency – Le Dancing CDCN, Dijon
March 2027 : 1 performance– Le Dancing CDCN, Dijon (Art Danse festival)
Production human future dance corps
Partenaires le Dancing CDCN Dijon Bourgogne–Franche-Comté ; la fraternelle – Maison du Peuple (Saint-Claude) ; les Bazis (Sainte-Croix-Volvestre) ; les Ateliers du milieu (Rouvres-sur-Aube) ; l’Office national de diffusion artistique (ONDA) dans le cadre du soutien pour les productions numériques complémentaires aux œuvres du spectacle vivant ; le GMEM – Centre national de création musicale (Marseille) ; la région Bourgogne–Franche-Comté ; la DRAC Bourgogne–Franche-Comté.
