Saturday 4th March 2023
THE PLACE
STARVING DINGOES
Léa Tirabasso
52min
+12
‘Such was the power of madness, announcing man's senseless secret, that the lowest point of his fall is also his first morning.’ Michel Foucault
Starving Dingoes is a rite. Vividly carved from the marble of our most primal fears, it is a journey through which is bent in every direction, the theme of our ineluctable destiny.
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Good evening and thanks a lot for coming tonight! I thought, instead of sharing with you the usual copy of the piece, I would share some of the questions that fed our creative process. Bearing in mind that we are not offering any answers, but rather, raising, always, more questions…
I have always believed that our consciousness was a curse. A madness really.
The fact that we are so aware of our own life, and thus death, is something so tragic, and yet so absurd to me.
Once upon a time, my body created a monster.
It was violent.
And to accept it, I had to dissect it.
A healthy cell dies when it dysfunctions.
This phenomenon is called Apoptosis.
An unhealthy cell does not; it ‘loses its ability to commit suicide'.
So I wondered: if an unhealthy cell cannot kill itself anymore in order to save the whole body: what do the other cells do? Do they know what's happening and can they do anything to prevent it?
This led me to question: what do we do when something dysfunctions?
Do we outcast it, destroy it, or repair it?
Aren’t we all a little dysfunctional or at least, damaged, by so many efforts to remain socially acceptable? And what are we willing to sacrifice in order to belong, and thus, to survive?
SPECIAL THANKS to Alistair Goldsmith, Catarina Barbosa, Karl Fagerlund Brekke, Laura Lorenzi, Laura Patay, Lauren Jenkins, Stefania Pinato, William Cardoso, Cédric Chaory, Ben Moon, Stéphane Accard, Bernard Baumgarten, Vasanthi Argouin, Sousana Eang, Gabrielle Moleta, Tom Stern, Nicoletta Palmitessa, Guillaume Pigé and our kids to put up with the nomadic and crazy life we live together.
CREDITS
Choreographer / Director: Léa Tirabasso
Producer: Vasanthi Argouin
Administrator: Sousana Eang
Dancers: Alistair Goldsmith, Catarina Barbosa, Karl Fagerlund Brekke, Laura Patay, Laura Lorenzi
Composer: Johanna Bramli & Ed Chivers
Lighting and Set Designer: Nicolas Tremblay, Thomas Bernard
Scientific Advisors: Simone Niclou, Aleksandra Gentry-Maharaj
Philosophy Advisor: Thomas Stern
Animal Transformation Coach: Gabrielle Moleta
Clown: Peta Lily
Tour booker: Vicenç Mayans
Starving Dingoes is co-produced by Les Théâtres de la Ville de Luxembourg (LU), Centre chorégraphique national de Rillieux-la-Pape, Direction Yuval PICK, dans le cadre du dispositif Accueil-Studio (FR).
Commissioned by The Place, London (UK) Dance East, Ipswich (UK)
Supported by FOCUNA (LU) TROIS C-L, Centre de Création Luxembourgeois (LU) La Maison de la Danse, Lyon (FR) (pour le prêt studio) Le CN D, Lyon (FR) Compagnie La Baraka, Annonay (FR), DanceXchange, Birmingham (UK) Grant for the Arts, Arts Council England (UK), Fondation Indépendance (LU), and Kulturlx (LU).
THE PLACE
STARVING DINGOES
Léa Tirabasso
52min
+12
‘Such was the power of madness, announcing man's senseless secret, that the lowest point of his fall is also his first morning.’ Michel Foucault
Starving Dingoes is a rite. Vividly carved from the marble of our most primal fears, it is a journey through which is bent in every direction, the theme of our ineluctable destiny.
______________________________
Good evening and thanks a lot for coming tonight! I thought, instead of sharing with you the usual copy of the piece, I would share some of the questions that fed our creative process. Bearing in mind that we are not offering any answers, but rather, raising, always, more questions…
I have always believed that our consciousness was a curse. A madness really.
The fact that we are so aware of our own life, and thus death, is something so tragic, and yet so absurd to me.
Once upon a time, my body created a monster.
It was violent.
And to accept it, I had to dissect it.
A healthy cell dies when it dysfunctions.
This phenomenon is called Apoptosis.
An unhealthy cell does not; it ‘loses its ability to commit suicide'.
So I wondered: if an unhealthy cell cannot kill itself anymore in order to save the whole body: what do the other cells do? Do they know what's happening and can they do anything to prevent it?
This led me to question: what do we do when something dysfunctions?
Do we outcast it, destroy it, or repair it?
Aren’t we all a little dysfunctional or at least, damaged, by so many efforts to remain socially acceptable? And what are we willing to sacrifice in order to belong, and thus, to survive?
SPECIAL THANKS to Alistair Goldsmith, Catarina Barbosa, Karl Fagerlund Brekke, Laura Lorenzi, Laura Patay, Lauren Jenkins, Stefania Pinato, William Cardoso, Cédric Chaory, Ben Moon, Stéphane Accard, Bernard Baumgarten, Vasanthi Argouin, Sousana Eang, Gabrielle Moleta, Tom Stern, Nicoletta Palmitessa, Guillaume Pigé and our kids to put up with the nomadic and crazy life we live together.
CREDITS
Choreographer / Director: Léa Tirabasso
Producer: Vasanthi Argouin
Administrator: Sousana Eang
Dancers: Alistair Goldsmith, Catarina Barbosa, Karl Fagerlund Brekke, Laura Patay, Laura Lorenzi
Composer: Johanna Bramli & Ed Chivers
Lighting and Set Designer: Nicolas Tremblay, Thomas Bernard
Scientific Advisors: Simone Niclou, Aleksandra Gentry-Maharaj
Philosophy Advisor: Thomas Stern
Animal Transformation Coach: Gabrielle Moleta
Clown: Peta Lily
Tour booker: Vicenç Mayans
Starving Dingoes is co-produced by Les Théâtres de la Ville de Luxembourg (LU), Centre chorégraphique national de Rillieux-la-Pape, Direction Yuval PICK, dans le cadre du dispositif Accueil-Studio (FR).
Commissioned by The Place, London (UK) Dance East, Ipswich (UK)
Supported by FOCUNA (LU) TROIS C-L, Centre de Création Luxembourgeois (LU) La Maison de la Danse, Lyon (FR) (pour le prêt studio) Le CN D, Lyon (FR) Compagnie La Baraka, Annonay (FR), DanceXchange, Birmingham (UK) Grant for the Arts, Arts Council England (UK), Fondation Indépendance (LU), and Kulturlx (LU).
