COS it’s in the cards
‘A Catalogue of Steps (COS)’ is a performance and research project consisting of more than 300 choreographic fragments drawn from performance videos of Dorvillier’s work created in New York City between 1990 and 2004. The choreographic fragments are classified on reference cards and with an accompanying invented taxonomy. Live visits to this collection are organized in an exhibition context where fragments are danced over and over again. But this time without the original contextualizing materials such as lightning, scenography and music. Essential to the project is the possibility to practice the question : What do we see when we look at dance?. 13 colorful flags created in collaboration with designer Olivier Vadrot represent the 13 works of COS.
In ‘COS it's in the cards’ visitors will be able experience the fragments through card-reading. They can participate by drawing reference cards and question cards. The performers then address the question by interpreting the information on the reference card, dancing the corresponding fragment, and/or showing a video of the same fragment.
A card-reading by choreographer Jennifer Lacey during a studio visit in 2014, inspired Dorvillier to explore how activating the cards exposes the dance, the visitors, and the performers to new processes of observing dance, in the present.
The cards were originally designed as working tools for the dance studio. Laying out the cards of a collection (usually 3 – 10 fragments) on the floor made it possible to activate the spatial and dramaturgical relationships between the different fragments. As the taxonomy evolves, the cards have become a space for play and creation in themselves. Responding to a sensitive question through the lens of a choreographic fragment, and the language used to describe it, stimulates the imagination. It opens up the relationship between the choreographic fragment, the catalogue card, its verbal description, and the spectator's very personal experience of a short abstract dance.
- Fri 15 Nov
- 13:30 - 15:00
- Fri 15 Nov
- 16:00 - 17:30
- Sat 16 Nov
- 13:30 - 15:00
- Sat 16 Nov
- 16:00 - 17:30
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performance - 90’
vr 15 nov – 13:30 & 16:00
za 16 nov – 13:30 & 16:00
continuous installation
do 14 nov — 18:00-22:00
vr 15 nov — 11:00-18:00
za 16 nov — 11:00-18:00
zo 17 nov — 11:00-18:00