iDANS 03 » sans - Martine Pisani

Oct.

Martine Pisani

sans

17 October 2009, Saturday 21:00
garajistanbul

Duration: 55'

There will be an artists’ talk after the performance

Full: 25 TL Discount: 15 TL

further discount up to 100% for participants of iDANS Discount Program

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It is difficult if not impossible to translate verbal jokes or jokes based on language. In a way, they set one group apart from another. A joke explained in a different language is no longer funny. However, bodily humor can travel more easily and is more accessible. sans is one of the best examples of the contagion of bodily humor.

Martine Pisani, who participated in the IstanbulREconnects Evening which was conceived as the launching of iDANS in 2006, returns to the festival with sans – a subtly humorous male trio created in 2000 with the participation of Théo Kooijman, Laurent Pichaud and Olivier Schram. With this work, Pisani once again delves into a playful and unpretentious encounter. On a still and empty stage, the three men appear at the mercy of constant rebounds. Their story is quite droll: amidst withdrawals, hesitations and faux pas, they seem to be facing up to a chain of ruptures.

Choreography: Martine Pisani | Performers: Theo Kooijman, Laurent Pichaud, Olivier Schram | Costume design: La compagnie du solitaire | Technical manager: Ludovic Rivière | Administration/booking: Lien Juttet | Premiere: Fabrik Potsdam (D), April 2000 | Production: La compagnie du solitaire | Co-production: Fabrik Potsdam | Support: DRAC Ile de France - Ministère de la culture et de la communication and ADAMI with the help from Vivat d'Armentières and Centre National de la Danse (studio time)

Martine Pisani is a French choreographer who highlights the quality of presence rather than resorting to artifices of representation. Coming up with concrete actions onstage, subtly and unassumingly, Martine Pisani has affirmed a unique posture and language, matched with a genuine poetics of dance. Following a series of fertile encounters with artists such as David Gordon, Yvonne Rainer and Odile Duboc, and participating in the Marseille-based group Dunes, this self-taught dancer in the 80s went on to become a choreographer in the early 90s by setting up her own company.

Pisani works in ricochets and rebounds as she often goes digging into a pathway whose potential had been insufficiently explored in a previous step. She is quick to adopt the postulate that mere thinking is already an action and bears in mind that “play” is crucial in order to set body and thought into motion. With characteristic detachment, Martine Pisani probes the space in-between being and playing and searches for the right distance necessary for the meaning to remain open. She also demonstrates that knowing how to play sometimes entails taking things seriously.