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• Blancher Cathy

Moonlight Moves

Four bodies appears in the dark, lying on the ground. Two musicians observe them.
They are like four ghosts who come back to life in the endless night of the far north and dance to celebrate the winter solstice.
From the ground to the standing station, embraces, skeletal dances, loss of balance, magma of bodies in fusion, postures and grimaces evoking ancient divinities will follow one another to finally die again in a last nocturnal sigh.
The bodies are painted with a phosphorescent material which reacts to black light, contributing to the visual poetry of the performance.

The music (electronic creation and live piano / song) accompanies, , play with the bodies and reveal all the details of the dance . A song, a voice, dancing words melts into the music like a sad deep lament, like a call in the endless night… and offers a particular emotional universe.

« … Eternal dark of the north winter time has devoured all the living, only the ghosts remain, sketching tender strange attitudes to make us dream in the endless night… »

Choreographic direction : Jeff BIZIEAU
Dance performers : Kana KITTY - Japan / Jeff BIZIEAU - France / Thea ATLADOTTIR - Iceland / Hiromu SATO - Japan
Musicians : Saevar JOHANNSSON (piano) - Iceland / Daniel CHAVIS (voice) - USA
Music and song : Saevar JOHANNSSON / Daniel CHAVIS / Jeff BIZIEAU
Recorded by Jordi NN, Pascal Renault and Lua Rivera Rigueroa / Gardur Iceland January 2023

God’s Wind

“We saw Lee Kuei-Chih’s artwork as a gate between the afterlife and our current existing world as we know it. And we let the unworldly spirits descend upon us. When we first saw Kuei-Chih’s artwork, the image of a snow storm came to mind, so we created a storm together by dancing. Then we learnt that the concept of his work, ‘light’, is a Chinese character that is formed from fire, so we became like gods who create fire together. The performance was actually completely improvised, but we had a story in our heads, so it was like a journey between us three artists.”
Gods Winds Performance by Hiromu SATO, Kana KITTY
Bright sculpture by KUEI-CHIH Lee at Gardur Folk Museum.
Music Filaments by Scott Buckley
Recorded by Jordi NN and Brandur PATERSSON
Gardur Iceland January 2023