TO INCORPORATE THAT WHICH REMAINS HERE AT THE IN MY HEART
To incorporate that which remains here at the in my heart is a journey through a physical memory built from imprints, traces, and ellipses left over time and is unusual in having been deployed over six years. The process's duration was carefully chosen to let time truly operate and put the physical memory of its protagonists to the test. The resulting work consists of four accompanied solos, created separately year after year and progressively assembled to form a whole, growing larger with time, as a plant does.
Each new chapter required the reactivation and reconstruction of former ones composing a whole made of a series of solos that are not as they appear, as they could just easily be duets, trios, or quartets. Each accompanied solo contains the seeds of those which follow, while they are also the branches, stems, leaves and ramifications of the previous ones, being both root and leaf simultaneously. Built from strata, from residues accumulated over time, through experience and traces, this work plays on events as well as on emotions to deepen how passing time transforms our memories and bodies in a challenging collective gesture of recollection.
concept, direction, choreography and visual actions Olga de Soto
scenography and costumes Thibault Vancraenenbroeck
clepsydrae Anne Mortiaux
lighting Gilles Gentner
sound spatialisation and real-time diffusion Pierre Gufflet
technical direction and set technician Christophe Gualde
with Florence Augendre, Sylvain Prudence, Edith Christoph and Olga de SotoPremière Centre Pompidou, Paris (2009)
Première of the revival: CONSTELLATION Olga de Soto, Mercat de les Flors, Barcelone (Feb 11 & 12, 2023)
production Niels Production (Brussels)
coproduction of the series Les Spectacles Vivants / Centre Pompidou (Paris), Centre Chorégraphique National de Franche-Comté (Belfort) as part of "accueil-studio" - Ministère de la Culture et de la Communication / DRAC Franche-Comté, Théâtre Le Granit Scène Nationale (Belfort), Centre André Malraux Scène Nationale (Vandœuvre-lès-Nancy) and Charleroi danse / Centre Chorégraphique de la Fédération Wallonie-Bruxelles (Brussels, Charleroi)with the support of Ministère de la Fédération Wallonie-Bruxelles — Secteur danse, Les Halles de Schaerbeek (Brussels) (chapter #4), Centre André Malraux Scène Nationale (Vandœuvre-lès-Nancy) (chapter #3), Kunstencentrum Netwerk (Aalst) (chapter #2) and Nadine (Brussels) (chapter #1)
research and creation residencies Charleroi danse / Centre Chorégraphique de la Fédération Wallonie-Bruxelles (2006-2007), Kunstencentrum Netwerk (Aalst) (2005), Centre Chorégraphique National de Franche-Comté (Belfort) (2004, 2006 and 2009) and Nadine (Brussels) (2003-2005)
length 1h45
Extract from the recording filmed at Les Halles de Schaerbeek, Brussels, in October 2009.
TOUR CALENDAR
11 MAR 2009, Centre Pompidou, Paris (FR)
12 MAR 2009, Centre Pompidou, Paris (FR)
13 MAR 2009, Centre Pompidou, Paris (FR)
20 MAR 2009, Festival La Belge Quinzaine, Centre Chorégraphique National de Franche-Comté, Belfort (FR)
21 MAR 2009, Festival La Belge Quinzaine, Centre Chorégraphique National de Franche-Comté, Belfort (FR)
30 SEP 2009, Festival Latitudes Lille Bruxelles, Les Halles, Brussels (BE)
01 OCT 2009, Festival Latitudes Lille Bruxelles, Les Halles, Brussels (BE)
02 OCT 2009, Festival Latitudes Lille Bruxelles, Les Halles, Brussels (BE)
11 FEB 2023, CONSTELLATION OLGA DE SOTO, Mercat de les Flors, Barcelone (ES) - PREMIERE REACTIVATION
12 FEB 2023, CONSTELLATION OLGA DE SOTO, Mercat de les Flors, Barcelone (ES)