Le Bateau-Lavoir - Shadow of distant shore

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Dance | Tanssi: Tina Besnard​​

 

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The performance “Le bateau-lavoir - Shadow of distant shore” deals with memories and purification by water and the surf. The universal movement of the waves which come and go constantly insinuate and filter the layers inside the body. Ephemeral landscapes escape from the flesh and slide along the flow of water in which everything dissolves and tirelessly regenerates itself, in the primordial soup.

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Tina Besnard started as a Modern Jazz dancer and actress. She trained in theater and vocal improvisation at the Roy Hart Theater and she is a yin yoga teacher. As early as 2010 she performed in butoh dance with visual artists, composers and music improvisers. She guides butoh dance workshops, including students, mainly in France.

 

Her main lines of research focus on:

- the tension due to extreme human fragility, which lets the body no other choice but to be both active and passive,

- the shadows which, in full light, appear in a pernicious way and lead the soul to gradually integrate both of them,

- the purity of an untouched matter which is suddenly or latently contaminated,

- How the body finds a dialog between light and darkness in an organic desire of redemption,

- the flow of mysterious images which go through the body when we let the sheath of everyday time melt.

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