Date(s)
- 21 octobre 2015 – Kammerspiele – Munich (DE)
- 17 septembre 2013 – Grenzlokultur vol. 15 – Mainz (D)
- 9 juin 2013 – Théâtre du Loup, Festival Danse Habile – Genève (CH)
- 30-31 mai 2013 – Gessnerallee, Festival Zurich Okkupation ! – Zurich (CH)
- 28 mai 2013 – Kaserne, Festival Wildwuchs – Bâle (CH)
- 10-11 mars 2013 – Théâtre Sévelin36, Festival Les Printemps – Lausanne (CH)
- 7, 8 et 9 décembre 2012 – Dampfzentrale, Berne – Suisse
Vidéos
https://player.vimeo.com/video/111412050 https://player.vimeo.com/video/11140232310x The Eternal
A Massimo Furlan, Cie BewegGrund & Numero23Prod project
The 10xThe Eternal project is based on the principle of repetition, and experiments with the loop and its recurrence. On the stage, the performers are like rooted in space. Motionless, awaiting, listening. They then start moving slowly, one movement after another, following the music and its structure. And the piece starts over again, from the beginning, once, twice, three times… and so to the actions. The experience is hypnotic. As the spectators lose all bearings on the sequence of events, the narrative structure and progression, they find themselves in an indeterminate space-time. Eternity is a loop. The ancient Greeks considered two kinds of eternity: eternity for the Olympian gods – full of bliss and pleasure – and eternity for men, who await in the netherworld. Eternity for Sisyphus, for Atlas and for Prometheus – like a sequence of gestures that cannot be halted and that repeats over and over again. Here, the dancers come into contact, get hurt, help each other, observe each other or fight alone. Even though, some variations do happen within the musical line, within the movements: the differences lie within repetition itself. Nothing is identical because time flows and doesn’t come back, because bodies change, because they are manifold, alive, because they have another story, another name… The spectators find themselves in a position where they expect something: they believe they know what is coming next because they know the sequence. But what they see is different as they look at new shapes, new relationships, and other bodies. They don’t see the same thing, but something new every time: they contemplate, they imagine, they reconstruct, and they dream.
No lyricism, no allegories: the spectators face a challenge. The performers are caught in a story that belongs to them. And they stare right through it.
10xThe Eternal experiments with fatigue: the tiredness of bodies that endlessly execute a programmed sequence of gestures, and the tiredness of the spectators who get lost in this infinite time. The spectators grow weary, but cannot envisage the end. They might say, “One more time”, just like a child to whom one reads the same story over and over again. Because postponing the end, maybe forever, does provide a great feeling of joy.
Direction
Massimo Furlan
Playwright
Claire de Ribaupierre
Choreographic assistant
Anne Delahaye
Artistic direction BewegGrund
Susanne Schneider
Performers
Diane Decker
Esther Kunz
Konrad Stokar
Raphaël de Riedmatten
Stéphane Vecchione
Antony Quenet
Création musique:
Stéphane Vecchione
Based on the song «The Eternal » from Joy Division
Light designer
Antoine Friderici
Administration
Susanne Schneider
Claudine Geneletti
Tour
Tutu Production, Genève
Production
BewegGrund & Numero23Prod.
Financials supports
Pro Helvetia – Fondation suisse pour la culture, KulturStadtBern, SWISSLOS / Kultur Kanton Bern, Etat de Vaud, Ville de Lausanne, Stanley Thomas Johnson Stiftung, Ernst Göhner Stiftung, Schweizerische Stiftung für das Cerebral gelähmte Kind, Burgergemeinde Berne, Migros Pour-cent culturel, Pro Infirmis Bern et Pro Infirmis Vaud