With the participants of the "Shared Territories" research workshop at ENSA Dijon, Germain Huby and Hèlène Robert, we have put on a show of the same name. We presented this creation on the stage of the Atheneum in Dijon. "The Other" is at the heart of the creative process, through involvement, collaboration, participation and sharing. As the French psychiatrist and psychoanalyst Jean Oury recalled: "To be as close as possible is not to touch: the greatest closeness is to assume and welcome the distant from the other" and to permanently practice open transplants.

Starting from a personal desire to make dance a communicating, didactic and accessible tool, I understood through the collection of photos, videos and sounds that it is a paradigm, a prism for seeing the world differently. The practice of dance is an exercise that requires a certain involvement. It can go to a total devotion. This art requires a real preparation, dedicated, in most cases, to the purpose of representation. It is an art that involves the 5 senses, in a hierarchical way. The view is heavily solicited. By focusing on other senses, dance is able to redesign itself in a completely different way. The power of the viewer's imagination (who is listening, in this case) allows us to perceive it in a different way. During a rehearsal, attention (visual and auditory) is essential. Deprived of sight, what is left for us to receive from the dance? Attention can deprive us of mobility, make us static, only receptive, passive, attentive, listening.

What can we extract from the choreographic exercise to make this listening dynamic, intuitive, participative, immersive? Going through the spatialization, what happen when we only retransmit clues, words, instructions, movements, breaths? What is the place of the other, the dancer. Should he let himself be guided by these clues. Where is his freedom of expression? What does he want to transmit then?

It was those questions that gave birth to a first experience choreography in the Atheneum auditorium in Dijon, on March 21, 2017. With by 11 dancers, we proposed a series of improvisational sequences, guided by a soundtrack, which reflected the atmosphere of different dance classes (glam dance, contemporary dance, bachata...).





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