Conscienza Di Terrore I + Chair Homme

Conscienza Di Terrore - Sylvia Camarda Our conscience, often moral, self-censors itself. There are sometimes pathological cases of total insensitivity, but these are rare. Inspired by the film Taxi to the Dark Side by Alex Gibney, this solo is about soldiers forced to carry out their profession in a modern-day gulag (a term used by Amnesty International to describe the prisons of Iraq, Afghanistan, and Guantanamo Bay), using scandalous abuse to achieve their goals. These tyrant-soldiers were described by Donald Rumsfeld as “a few bad apples.” But did these tyrant-soldiers not simply execute orders given by their superiors? Or did they only want to practice torture for their own satisfaction? By closely observing the body language of these soldiers, one finds helplessness, vulnerability, and an unconsciousness of their being, and it is this that motivates the choreographic act. Chair Homme - Jonathan Fortin + Vincent Morelle To cross the everyday life lost in memory. When memory collects what we forget. To fight in order to offer up scars deep in the belly. A life buried under the body. The calm gaze. Fire beneath the skin… Chair Homme is a reflection on identity. The image of man as he is and as we would like him to be. Two men with distorted bodies, abandoned in their solitude. The question of the double never ceases to arise: two men are on stage, yet our gaze shifts between these two characters as if they were one. A feminine presence is contained yet nonetheless present, it seeps beneath the flesh. In a universe that is both tragic and sarcastic, the vulnerability buried under the bodies of these two characters gradually breaks through their shells. What is hidden behind the strength of these two bodies ready to face anything? Is it the reflection of a world that wishes to be perfect, peaceful, but which, in reality, is ready to explode at any moment? Or is it simply a journey into the intimacy of a man and his solitude, his dreams and his fears?