Sound crossing, danced gesture

Created in February 2010 at CDC les Hivernales, Avignon
Continued in July 2010 at Festival d'Avignon Off and June 2011 at Uzès Danse

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I keep moving forward, tracing the thread of time and oblivion. The oblivion of this Blackfoot child on the Bains-Romains beach, west of Algiers, from 1952 to 1962. One of the few memories I have of her is the time I spent walking or crouching in the sand, for hours on end, searching for Saint Lucy's eyes. 10 years gone. Where did these phantom years end up, in some lost nook or cranny?
Today, I'm in the aftermath of "Cornucopiae", my last piece created in November 2008 at the La Rochelle choreographic institution, which was about disappearance, without face or gaze. So I'm a dancer, a nomad, with no desire for a place or a company, and ready to cross the space of this return of memory, in the face of my absences, air holes.

L’oral de la danseuse aveugle

Moving from the eye to the ear, from the written to the spoken word, from listening to the spoken word. Reconnect with a certain idea of performance by choosing a non-frontal space to expose and connect oneself in a different way. Reconnect through other collected words, fragments that are sensitive and external to oneself.

"... When she reaches the shore, she plucks out her eyes and moves towards the sea. She then begins to dance, her head tilted back, along the beach to its end. All night long. Every night. At dawn, she takes her eyes and puts them back in their place. ..."
* from the myth of the blind dancer "De chair et de pierre. Essai de mythologie kanak (Maré, Loyalty Islands)" - Charles Illouz.