More than 60 dancers move into public space. But this is not about crowd movements: Multitud renders perceptible the organic bonds between bodies, and examines our capacity to affect and be affected.
After a pandemic that prevented any gatherings and kept bodies apart, what remains of our capacity to come together? Multitud is not a piece of choreography for a mass of people, warns Tamara Cubas; rather, it is a dance about relationships – and especially bodies’ invisible relationships despite the distance between them. In what the Uruguayan choreographer defines as “a socio-aesthetic experiment”, more than 60 volunteers of all ages and backgrounds take possession of a public space. In this participatory creation, the artist replaces the idea of composition by that of collective organisation, encouraging the dancers to choose among the possibilities offered by the score. Sympathetic to the ways we affect and are affected, and to the poetics of the precarity of colonised bodies, she induces moves rather than dictating them. And so, the forces guiding this Multitud will be forms of hospitality, listening and negotiation.
Duration
01:30
Credits
- Artiste
Piece for 96 amateur performers – 2013
Art direction Tamara Cubas Music Francisco Lapetina Light design Leticia Scrycky Technical team on tour Francisco Lapetina, Daniela Fresard International diffusion Julia Asperska Tour manager Horacio Pérez Artistic partners Centre chorégraphique Calabash, CNSMDL
Performers Lila André Gallis, Adam Baheux, Victoria Beltrán, Marie Claude Bernard, Isabelle Besançon, Patricia Bidart, Hélène Bonot, Sandra Bouanich, Hugo Bourbier, Maylis Camail Faucher, Blanche Candat, Faustine Caron, Elea Chastan, Yves Chiara, Christian Clément, Agathe Colombo, Capucine Coudert, Clara Couve, Jeanne De Grossouvre, Wilson Debain, Sara Dollé, Emmy Doucoure, Maëlle Dubourg, Léonore Faurite, Angel Favarel-Denat, Salomé Fernández, Gnousse Francfort, Lou Gasnier, Jean-Philippe Giraud, Mathilde Gonthier, Maël Guénéguan, Assia Guermah, Lucas Guerton, Mathilde Guijarro, Flavie Haour, Ellena Henry-- Ostermann, Maëlly Ilasciuc, Joanne Jacob, Emma Jeanmougin, Louise Joset-Vernet, Elisa Lahéry, Matthis Lainé Silas, Maylis Lambert, Sophie Larivière, Isabelle Larpin, Enora Laurenza, Violette Legrand, My-làn Legué, Morgane Lingot, Mayeul Longueville, Riley Louis, Romain Louis, Trevor Louw, Samantha Marchand Lopez, Cécile Marmonnier Sotta, Julie Marzais, Lily Masson, Fatiha Miloua, Nina Morand, Noemí Moreno Lucas, Pascal Moscariello, Inès Nguyen Huu, Sonia Nikitin, Melinda Parizot, Coleen Père, Niger de Jesus Pereira Duarte, Prune Pernaton, Meije Pigeonnat, Marine Plaza, Mathilde Potard, Raphael Quintanel, Lou-Ann Randria-Rahari, Philippe Reach, Amélie Reix, Sarah Rener, Mathilde Revert, Christiane Reymond, Justin Rioult, Nolwenn Rodier, Lou Roubert-Olive, Pauline Saut, Sophie Sautron, Solène Sellier, Fatou Sene, Mailin Stein, Salomé Strubel, Mathilde Taillandier, Fabrice Taponard, Marthe Tissot, Capucine Trichon, Alexandra Vaudatin, Lysiane Vogel, Juliette Volle, Nina Wendling, Hugo Witczak, Dominique Yoyo
With the help of de Camilo Sepúlveda, Lara Barzon
With amateur artists