Recycling with Christina is a performance which proposes an exhibition space being a place for the documentation of the process and the actual dancing/performing to constantly cross and get intertwined. In an airy scenography, the performers invite the audience to take a look at their working methods in the studio throughout the process as well as the result of it.

 

As an initiative to this project Anna Skorpen and Morgane Nicol had a personal desire of recognizing and underlining what is already existing and working with what’s already there. In 1969 the conceptual artist Douglas Huebler wrote, « The world is full of objects, more or less interesting; I do not wish to add any more. » They’ve come to embrace Huebler’s ideas, though it might be retooled as « The world is full of dances, more or less interesting; we do not wish to add any more. » It seems an appropriate response to a new condition in dancing today: faced with an unprecedented amount of available choreographies, the problem is not needing to make more of it; instead, we must learn to negotiate the vast quantity that exists.

 

« Recycled language is politically and ecologically sustainable, promoting reuse and reconditioning as opposed to the manufacture and consumption of the new, counteracting rampant global capitalist consumption by admitting that language cannot be owned or possessed, that it is a shared and endlessly abundant resource. »

"UNCREATIVE WRITING : Managing Language in the Digital Age" - Keneath Goldsmith

 

With the idea of recycling material as a drive during the process, Anna and Morgane gave a second life to different kind of choreographic materials, transforming them in order to make it become another one and thus going against the constant need of creating and producing something new. To « re-purpose » the materials they reclaimed them with their own bodies.

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Concept, Choreography & Performance by Anna Skorpen and Morgane Nicol

 

May 2018