ABERRATION

Moral, environmental, economic, architectural, esthetic aberrations…The deviations regarding common sense or the norm are multiple. They destabilize and provoke contradictory reactions. They can simultaneously make us smile, revolt us, and stimulate our creativity to try and compose with them.

Referring to the origin of the astronomical term, which signifies a gap between the visible direction of a star and its true direction, ABERRATION underpins a chorographical study that tests our aptitude to imagine perspectives of reconstruction after the sudden deviation of a life-trajectory.

Using for example the study of optical aberrations to achieve this. Appreciating how the geometrical and chromatic deformations of image enrich perception. In a series of attempts to recover the senses in the same way one recovers sight, this chorographical wandering offers us the possibility of redefining form and color by beginning with questioning the void, the “nothing before all beginnings” that, as Kandinsky also said, “is full of living possibilities.”

ABERRATION conceives itself as a divergent prism, an invitation to activate a new calibration of emotions without judging their coherence, and to accept the new organization of altered reminiscences that this in turn produces. It acts as a landslide toward an out-of-sync and subtly absurd universe, provoking a variety of troubling sensations, such as that of going to bed as David Bowie and waking up as Ziggy Stardust.

Concept, chorégraphie et interprétation
Emmanuel Eggermont
Collaboration artistique et photographie
Jihyé Jung
Musique originale
Julien Lepreux
Création lumière
Alice Dussart
Consultante artistique
Élise Vandewalle
Production et diffusion
Sylvia Courty
Administration de production
Violaine Kalouaz
Production
L’Anthracite (www.lanthracite.com)
Coproduction
CCNT direction Thomas Lebrun, ADC Genève, Le Gymnase CDCN Roubaix Hauts-de-France, La Maison CDCN Uzès Gard Occitanie, Le Tandem Scène Nationale, Pôle Sud CDCN Strasbourg, le théâtre de Nîmes-scène conventionnée d’intérêt national - Art et Création - danse contemporaine. Spedidam

Avec l’aide de la DRAC Hauts-de-France et la Région Hauts-de-France

Projet soutenu dans le cadre du programme Etape Danse, initié par l’Institut français d’Allemagne - Bureau du Théâtre et de la Danse, en partenariat avec la Maison CDCN Uzès Gard Occitanie, le théâtre de Nîmes-scène conventionnée d’intérêt national – Art et Création - danse contemporaine, la fabrik Potsdam, et Interplay International Festival contemporary dance (Turin) en collaboration avec La lavanderia a Vapore/ Fondazione Piemonte dal Vivo (Piémont) et l’aide de la DGCA - ministère de la Culture et de la Ville de Potsdam.

©2024 L'Anthracite/Emmanuel Eggermont