FR/EN
DIRECTION : SABINA SCARLAT
INTERPRETATION : SABINA SCARLAT & CHLOE BEILLEVAIRE / IRENE RUSSOLILLO
SCENOGRAPHY : DAMIAN & KILIAN VAN DER VELDEN
MUSIC : GIOVANNI DI DOMENICO
LIGHTS : REMY URBAIN
EXTERNEL EYES : LISI ESTARAS /BALLETS C DE LA B, NICANOR DE ELIA
PRODUCTION : GARAGE29
CO-PRODUCTIONS : LA BALSAMINE (BE), HALLES DE SCHAERBEEK (BE)
WITH THE SUPPORT OF WALLONIA-BRUSSELS FEDERATION
PREMIERES :
14>17/03/17 LA BALSAMINE (BE)
TOUR :
30/06 & 01/07/17 DANSAND FESTIVAL (BE),
05/06/18 ATELIER FESTIVAL (RO),
07/06/18 BABEL FAST FESTIVAL (RO),
15>24/06/18 OEROL FESTIVAL (NL)
06/07/19 NEW BALTIC DANCE FESTIVAL (LT),
11/2019 ALTOFEST (IT)
UNIFORME stages the necessity of destroying before preserving or building again. Coiled in a monotonous music crescendo, two similar women, orchestrate the demolition of a sand sculpted decor. Their repeated gestures emphasizing breaking and collapse, operate a slow but certain erosion that transmutes the landscape, reducing it to nothing.
The nonsense that emerges at first sight from this infernal repetition claims the right place of destruction in the cycle of life. UNIFORME figures a world inhabited by beings who make the active and repeated choice of becoming the actors of a natural and necessary corrosion. Neither victims nor executioners of an environment that they shape indefinitely, they renew without concession their pleasure to create, building their identity in a short-lived, fragile world full of loss.
CHOREGRAPHY
UNIFORM is a unison that is constantly being built and destroyed. Accents, gestures and rhythms suddenly settle together before disappearing again in a permanent oscillation.
SCENOGRAPHY
While it is the result of a long natural destruction process, invisible to the human scale, sand is also a building material. UNIFORME exploits both sides simultaneously, shaping and reshaping it in a multiplication of the same pattern, in the image of our world reduced to global village.
“This hand-to-hand fight in the sand offers a masterful strength merciless and very precise esthetics. If only for the pleasure of eyes, Uniforme is widely worth seeing.”
Didier Blécard, LʼEcho, Brussels 2017
“The diversity of the world is endangered by the ultimate drive for uniformity. The two women explore a system which jams in its search for uniformity, a grain of sand in the cog of the machine’s wheel. The uniformity gives birth to chaos and from chaos comes a new arrival. From the chaos and destruction, they merge.”
Flora Eveno, RTBF Culture, Brussels 2017
“The passion and the dancing visual language with which proceeds the duo, are certainly fascinating to watch. It has something of the myth of Sisyphus, in which Sisyphus must always push a stone up a mountain which rolls down again and again over the top whenever it reaches it. That is also the content of Uniforme : the accomplished will be destroyed, after which it is built up again and again. In other words, the senselessness of everything. From this perspective, this performance highly reaches its goal.”
Kester Freriks, Theaterkrant, Holland 2018