Biography
In the work of this multidisciplinary artist, several media converge on dance: stage plays, films and installations contribute to a singular oeuvre, where the archaic melds with the extremely contemporary in a dizzying, hallucinatory atmosphere. In Incantus and Air, the dancers’ amplified breathing blends with the choral voice of a contemporary music ensemble: this method of augmenting breath exacerbates the reverberation of the movement in space. Vincent Dupont’s oeuvre – which draws inspiration from the visual arts, as in Jachères improvisations, a piece created after an installation by visual artist Stan Douglas; and from the theatre tradition, as in Mettre en pièce(s), freely adapted from Peter Handke’s Offending the Audience – displays radically transgressive intent. In Hauts Cris (miniature), alone in a drawing-room cluttered with bourgeois furniture, he lets his rage come to the boil and smash the furniture. In Refuge, a fable about the figure of the twin, two warehouse employees, stuck with their repetitive gestures, sabotage the machine that is alienating them. Moving from one medium to another to blur the boundaries between visible and invisible in 5 apparitions successives, Vincent Dupont experiments with all kinds of images – analogue, digital and even subliminal. In Stéréoscopia through to No reality now, he has produced immersive stagings that disturb perception. Dispensing atoms of daydreams, the latter piece – an investigation of the relationship between reality and fiction, between what is projected and what is embodied – concludes in the imagination of a spectator, who is called upon to amplify their sensations.