SONGS
Mieko Miazaki koto
Patricia Borges Henriques dance
Nadine Gabard vocal
Stéphane Guignard director
Directed by Stéphane Guignard
Songs is a musical journey between East and West where the
unexpectable John Cage acts as a link: the suspended singing of Nadine
Gabard meets Mieko Miyazaki’s Koto, the former enacting John Cage
pieces, the latter high-jacking her instru- ment into transpositions
tainted with Japanese melodies… These 2 singular musical trajectories,
draped with electronic sound environments, are troubled by Patricia
Borges Henriques’s ethnical dance.
Mieko
Miyazaki
Stretching time to better cease the moment, Stéphane Guignard
guides the comedians to the limits of their discipline, revealing the
body as a crossroads for the music. Each one’s identity bounces over
the other one’s movement, provo- king, alternating, misfitting
intentions until tran- quillity is reached.
Patricia
Borges Henriques
Suspended, the bodies of these three “worlds” play their
roots. From this white stage, from this silence particular to John
Cage, from which anything can spring, comes a sound full sweetness, a
fluidity of sounds, notes, noises, emotions… Inspired by the I Ching,
an overlay of luminous lines introduces color and detaches the hearing.
To interpret John Cage today is the sign of a free- dom to act upon
serendipitous encounters. Car- rier of this singular enterprise,
Stephane Guignard revives a physical and liberated kind of listening.
eclats
Nadine
Gabard
