Choreographer Eszter Salamon continues her series of “monuments” – recollections of history and an invitation to write others – with the fourteen performer-dancers of the Carte Blanche company. In The Living Monument, the figures who inhabit sites build monochrome landscapes where time is distended, and colour becomes a physical force. The entire scene moves from one monochrome to another, from black to white, from midnight blue to incandescent orange. The performers form and deform figures and transform their voices and an environment composed of contrasting materials and gleaned objects. Time then slows, pulling us into a grandiose still life made of tableaux vivants.
The work of Hungarian artist Eszter Salamon explores choreography by extending it into other art forms. Her first pieces (What a Body You Have Honey and Reproduction), marked by a conceptual approach and sensory work, explore questions around gender and its depiction on stage. Distorted by hairpieces, transformed bodies are incorporated on stage by their physical attributes (Melodrama) or dematerialised and made sensitive by a sonic presence (TALES OF THE BODILESS). Her desire to tear away the veil of silence that normally drapes the dancer’s body has led her to develop a documentary work in which the spoken word reveals unique biographies. Presented both at festivals and in exhibition spaces, her work accomplishes an unprecedented fusion of mind and body. MONUMENT 0 : Hanté par la guerre (1913 – 2013), the first part of the Monuments series, and MONUMENT 0.6 : HÉTÉROCHRONIE / Palermo 1599 – 1920 were presented at the Théâtre Nanterre-Amandiers in 2016 and 2021.
Station Théâtre des Amandiers – Palais des sports
- arrêt Nanterre-Préfecture
- Arrêt Nanterre-la-Folie
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