Frédéric Gies is ready to take stock. With their body, Gies becomes a dancing archive summarising 30 years of career on stage.
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Duration
60 minutes
2 May
19:00
3 May
19:00
An intimate portrait, a love letter to dance and a journey in and out of all the identities and memories accumulated by, and in, a body in motion. Frédéric Gies moves through the decades with humour, authority and self-distance, using the sediments left by dances they has danced or seen. The preserved and decomposed dance materials preserved in Gies' body become fertile soil for new dances.
In Frédéric's horoscope, the asteroid Terpsichore is in Scorpio. Scorpio symbolises death, rebirth and transformation, and Terpsichore is linked to deep emotional experiences. The year 2021, when the work premiered, was also the year when the asteroid Terpsichore returned to the place in the sky where it was when Frédéric was born.
"Terpsichore in Scorpio - Deposition was shown on the small stage of Dansens Hus in 2022, and is now coming back to meet the audience again.
Frédéric Gies on "Terpsichore in Scorpio - Deposition.
I started to work in the dance field thirty years ago, in the fall 1991. In Terpsichore in Scorpio - Deposition, I offer my body as a living, somatic archive of thirty years of dance - thirty years of dance that occurred not only on stage or in the studio, but also on the dance floors where I danced for countless hours. The dances that constitute this piece originate in my deepest kinesthetic memories, in the sediments left by movements I have danced or seen. The sometimes intact, sometimes putrefying dance materials contained in my body constitute the fertile soil for new dances. In the title, deposition refers to the legal term for a written document consisting of the testimony of a witness.
Scorpio, in astrology, represents death, rebirth, transformation and regeneration. It is associated with deep emotional experiences. Terpsichore refers to the Greek muse of dance and to the asteroid Terpsichore. In the fall 2021, this asteroid returns to its placement in the sky when I was born.
About Frédéric Gies
Frédéric Gies är dansare och koreograf baserad i Sverige. Gies startade sin karriär under 1990-talet i Frankrike och dansade där med koreografer som Daniel Larrieu, Olivia Grandville, Jean-François Duroure, Bernard Glandier och Christophe Haleb. Efter att ha flyttat till Berlin gjorde Gies 2006 verket Dance (Praticable) som fick internationell uppmärksamhet för sitt experimentella uttryck. Gies arbete är ofta nära kopplat till technomusik och genomsyrat av referenser till klubb- och ravekultur. Gies har också sedan lång tid ett stadigt samarbete med den tyske DJ:n och producenten Fiedel.2014 gick flytten till Sverige och sedan dess har Gies börjat utveckla sin egen praktik Technosomatics. Sedan 1996 har Gies skapat mer än 30 verk och presenterar föreställningar både i Sverige och utomlands, i olika kontexter såsom scenkonsthus, musikfestivaler och i museer."Terpsichore in Scorpio - Deposition premiered at Inkonst in Malmö in 2021.
Choreographer Frédéric Gies in conversation after the performance Terpsichore in Scorpio - Deposition with the dancer and choreographer Cristina Caprioli.
Choreography and dance
Frédéric Gies
Dancers (in the video projections)
Elise Brewer, Disa Krosness, Maria Naidu, Malin Stattin, Andrea Svensson, Thomas Zamolo
music
fiddle
Light design
Thomas Zamolo
Costume
Grzegorz Matlag
Video
Andrea Keiz (editing) and Frédéric Gies (filming)
Co-producers
Art and the Forest
With the support of
The Swedish Arts Council and the City of Malmö.
Residencies at Danscentrum Syd, Inkonst and Skogen