Alice Chauchat & Frédéric Gies 25+26 sept

Two soloperfomances by Alice Chauchat & Frédéric Gies
The Breast Piece (praticable) / Dance(praticable)
25+26 September at 7
tickets 100 kr (half price for students with ID)

Praticable
Praticable is a horizontal work structure including Alice Chauchat, Frédéric de Carlo, Frédéric Gies, Isabelle Schad, and Odile seitz, brings into relation research, creation, transmission and distribution. It is the basis for many performances that are signed by one or more participants in the projects. These performances are grounded, in one way or another, in the exploration of body practices to approach representation. In order to keep these questions open and to ofer a multiplicity of perspectives, each performance of a piece made within praticable is preceded by a first part presenting another praticable work.

The Breast Piece (praticable)
"As to nakedness on stage, we thought we had seen it all. But in The Breast Piece, Alice Chauchat & Frédéric Gies renew the gaze and the questions about the body connected to it. Yet Chauchat reveals only her breasts. But, in the style of performance art, she densifies their presence to the extreme. Her tiniest movements—an inflexion, a tonic stress—converge towards her breasts, which focus the tension and irradiate her whole body.Thus they seem to detach themselves from the rest of her person, to vibrate, spread out, disappear, unfold, mark the time, insist. Autonomous, they strip from the common images that lock these attributes of femininity to clichés, from the breastfeeding woman to the trailer calendar bimbo. In that sense, this choreographic act, haloed with a slight smile to a totally offbeat music by Ernest Chausson, is eminently political."
(Gérard Mayen, Danser)

This work focuses on the breasts, both as physiological fact and cultural symbol for femininity. Our interest lays in producing culturally loaded representations of woman out of a concrete physical practice, and through this to question the relation between "natural" body and its cultural representations.

Concept & Choreography : Alice Chauchat & Frédéric Gies.
Dance : Alice Chauchat.
Lights:Rut Waldeyer.
Production manager: Pauline Roussille / Aire

Dance(praticable) of which an excerpt will be presented
"In “Dance (Praticable)”by focusing on bodily origins of movement, I question the notions of authorship and style, as well as the tools of production of forms, by integrating the idea that the process which produces a form determines its meaning and its content. The body practice becomes the main tool to generate dance and choreography. The deployment and the association of very contrasted movement qualities and body states, produced by inner changes of attention, establish the structure allowing the choreography to appear."

Concept, score and choreography: Frédéric Gies
After a proposal of Alice Chauchat
Artistic assistance: Alice Chauchat
Light design: Ruth Waldeyer
Music: Madonna

Weld, Norrtullsgatan 7, (T-bana Odenplan)