Discreet Deaths
Rachid Ouramdanes initial idea was to use an Internet search engine as a means of exploring the various ways death is represented on the web. This meant entrusting the dramaturgy for his new piece to a hyper-textual logic, so leading to a non-linear narration.
Travel through the net and death crops up in many varied forms. We can explore the death penalty for young offenders in the USA, the suicide attacks perpetrated by young Muslims, the teenage penchant for gothic fashion as an expression of rebellion, the new forms of suicide on the Internet, and lots more. The performance itself is shaped by the search results, expressed as a sequence of constantly changing corporeal transformations, like a rewriteable CD. This is almost a choreography of web-surfing, an outcome of curiosity and a synthesis of random results.
Rachid Ouramdane develops his projects within the framework of the Fin Novembre Association, co-founded with Julie Nioche in 1996. Over the years he has gradually brought video technology into his projects as a means of comparing and contrasting various ways to record and retrieve the corporeal memory. He uses video not only as a means to represent the body but also as a tool to work on the matter of the body itself and to explore a new perspective for the choreographic gesture.
Production: Association Fin Novembre. Co-production: Rencontres Chorgraphiques Internationales de Seine-Saint-Denis/Le Mange de Reims, Scne Nationale/Centre Chorgraphique National de Franche-Comt Belfort/CCN de la rgion Provence-Alpes-Cte-dAzur/Ville dAix-en-Provence/Dpartement des Bouches-du-Rhne/CNDC, Angers. With the support of Ministre de la Culture et de la Communication.
With the support of Ballet Atlantique Rgine Chopinot, BARC/de La Mnagerie de Verre, Paris/du Springdance Festival Preview, Utrecht. association fin novembre is aided by DRAC le-de-France, Ministre de la Culture et de la Communication Aide la Compagnie Chorgraphique conventionne.