"With Time passing deep within the body, the choreographer Francis Plisson has produced a high-tension work in which the spatialization and memory of sound create a highly original poetic space. A scene composed of traces and fragments."

Eve Beauvallet - Mouvement' revue

"By entitling his work Time passing deep within the body, Francis Plisson encourages us to think about the fascinating idea of embodied memory, forming the body in the same way as a personality. an artist of mature years, a former classical dancer, now free to explore, the choreographer invites the audience into the intimacy of a spatial installation, in which proximity, like the inventive treatment of sound, approaches an experience of inner need."

Gérard Mayen - Scene Nationale d'Orléans brochure

Time passing deep within the body is an installation-show at the crossroads of dance, music and multimedia

A production which challenges the concept of spectator-consumer

Time passing deep within the body is a return to the origins of dance, lying at the very heart of matter, and our relationship with the body : a dance which closely involves the audience who act as witness and not just as mere consumers of entertainment. The dancer and the audience interact, creating a common energy in a shared experience of sensation and movement.

In this creation, Francis Plisson explores issues about the body. Masculine, ageing, his trace created and left behind... He approaches the subject through empty spaces, sound, related matter, appropriately the development of this idea was built around materiel from an abbey, a place of pure memory.

Material drawn into an enclosed place

Images of stone projected onto a sheet of metal, the effects of substance matter on the half-naked body of the dancer acting as the palette of memory. Substance is then drawn into an enclosed space : we touch the stone, we hear the wood of the doors of time resonate, we feel the warmth of the body... The relationship with matter is a central element, not only through touch but also through the sound and sight that it produces.

The audience at the centre

Time passing deep within the body is in the form of a chapter in which the reader-narrator enters the universe of the installation through three different doors. The audience literally experiments with the setting within a specific spatial and poetic arrangement in which the music provides a common narrative theme for 60 minutes in the three dance spaces. The audience is placed in different areas for each work, the height and depth of each stage providing a different perception. In this way, the audience is involved in the narrative and interacts with the dance, sometimes drawn in by generosity of the movements, sometimes disturbed by the force of the gesture.

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