Skin. That fine line that separates us from the outside world, and protects us from it; that also allows us to touch, and be touched… In Skin, Grenoble-based choreographer Bouba Landrille Tchouda writes an encounter with Antwerp pianist and composer Guy Van Nueten. It’s a meeting with many different overtones (musical, generational, cultural). A meeting that began with a look at death: the death of desire, the death of commitment, of thought. Together, they have created a duet that is a delicate, fragile balance between the heavy inertia of indifference and the unquenchable thirst to live despite the fears and chaos of the world. At the very heart of the matter.
Cast
Choreography and Interpretation Bouba Landrille Tchouda /Music and Interpretation Guy Van Nueten / Dramaturgy Olivier Hespel / Scenography Rodrigue Glombard / Lights Fabrice Crouzet / Costumes Claude MurgiaCoproduction Château Rouge Annemasse / Mc2 Grenoble / Le Pacifique | Cdc – Grenoble
Photos
Photos credits : Camille Triadou
Presse
‘… Skin is one of Bouba Landrille Tchouda’s favourite choreographies: sober, intense and sensitive. There is something of the solitude, the tension, the absolute need to give free rein to self-expression… But there is also something more radical in the very pared-down set, in the heavy silence of time passing and in the dance that is all restraint…’
Prune Vellot, les affiches de grenoble, 13 February 2015
‘… Skin is a journey to the other side of being, to what it can reveal about the essence of our existence… Bouba Landrille Tchouda creates an intimate, visceral, passionate relationship between gesture and music…’.
B.M., le Dauphiné Libéré 23 February 2015