Festival d’Aurillac / Compagnies de passage
Aurillac, France
In progress
Duration : 20 minutes
solo
2025
A precarious and precise balance in which bodies, objects and spectators share their presence for the time of a suspension
© Stéphane Rouaud
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“The instant has only our gestures to reveal its endless” Thierry Metz
L'instant n'a que nos gestes is a suspension in time. A poetic exploration made up of simple, sustained gestures. A parenthesis for settling down and accompanying the emergence of an improbable construction. A chimera made of beams, ladders, tyres... poor materials that bring into play the body that works them.
This dialogue gives rise to a dance that borrows its roughness from construction work, its dangers from the circus, its know-how from the craftsman's gestures, but which remains a dance around which to gather.
L'Instant n'a que nos gestes is a short recreation for the public space of the original piece T, created in 2008.
In the creation of T, the material determines each movement that the body produces. Its characteristics define the movement. An improbable construction then emerges from all the objects brought into play with the body working on them, placing itself on the construction itself. Balancing and opposing become fundamental actions, the body and the objects share their presence, enriching each other. This dialogue gives rise to a dance that comes close to the work of construction, the circus, the gestures of the craftsman or the sculptor, but which always remains a dance. A dynamic relationship between forces and materials is created, exploring movement and time. In this solo, Jordi Galí explores the path of the impulse: attack, deployment and end.
Festival d’Aurillac / Compagnies de passage
Aurillac, France
Tàrrega, Spain
Created and performed by Jordi Galí
Production Arrangement Provisoire
“When you realize the thoroughness, you see the importance of having it at a dance festival (...) the structure needs the body above all as support, restraint, calculation, proportion. A series of apparently simple actions for the construction of the final installation, which, when it emerges, returns us to a dreamlike relationship with the installation, overcoming and realizing its impossibility.
Weight, balance, rhythm, tempo, expectation, materiality, gesture, spatiality, precision, repetition are some of the essential principles of dance; it's as if he's dancing that Jordi does the procedure on site, while we risk the minimum of breathing, hoping not to lose everything by causing an involuntary distraction."