Commande du ballet de l’Opéra de Lyon dans le cadre du cycle « Danser encore »
Marc Domage
Self duet is a pas de deux with oneself. The dancer Katrien De Bakker treats different parts of her body as if they belonged to an external partner. This piece explores the position of our own body and the fine line between interiority and exteriority. The body of the dancer is at the same time a goal, an object, a target, a tool, a constraint… As in Le Grand Caprice on “Der Erlkönig” by Heinrich W. Ernst, which accompanies the piece, where the violinist plays both the piano part and the singer’s part of Franz Schubert’s lied, in Self duet, the performer splits himself and makes two partners circulate in his body and manipulate each other in turn.
Distribution
Chorégraphie : Noé Soulier Interprétation : Katrien de Bakker Musique : Grand Caprice sur Le roi des Aulnes Op. 26, de Heinrich Ernst