saturday 4 april – 9 pm
Ex Chiesa di San Mattia
Yasmine Hugonnet (CH)
Chro no lo gi cal
performance in situ
Chro no lo gi cal is an invitation to an internal journey that plays with time and its different dimensions. It offers an experience that escapes the clocks, a time to live in the weights rather than the measures. For living bodies, in fact, duration is experienced first in the shedding of weight: the birth of a leap, the growth of a leaf, the fall into sleep. In bodies, weights grow, roll, sink and do not divide. The present is a river sound, perpetual rather than eternal, a roll between the already and the still. Is there a little present in the pure state? Can we snatch a little present from the race of time? Dostoevsky, in The Demons, said that “this present is a sudden contact with eternal harmony. It is an ecstasy, poetic or mystical, but it can not last more than five seconds. Beyond five seconds of pure present, it is epilepsy.” Chro no lo gi cal opens rhythmic gaps in the number of time, to explore other consistencies, more plastic: atomic velocities, gravitational waves, flashbacks and déjà-vu, haunting gestures, ghosts in the voice, words before words, dances after the end, survivals of archaic knowledge in the new clothes of the contemporary. In Bologna, Chro no lo gi cal trio becomes a choreo-graphic-musical concert where hidden languages inhabit the architecture, continually displacing the space of meaning.
Yasmine Hugonnet is a Swiss choreographer, dancer and researcher. Her work investigates the relationship between form, image and sensation, in the (de)construction of the language of choreography and the process of embodyment and appropriation. She studied ballet and contemporary dance at National Superior Conservatory in Paris and In New York (contact improvisation, Butoh, composition, and postmodern dance). In 2000 she started creating in the frame of the collective Synalephe exploring various performative formats, and developed a practice of dance and performance with visually impaired artists in Taiwan. As she looked for a more critical context, she moved to The Netherlands joining the Choreography Master Degree ‘Dance Unlimited’ program: a practical and theoretical master for which she researched upon the notion of presence in performance, studied Butoh and Laban Movement Analysis. Since then, her work has been oriented by important encounters with the choreographers and mouvement researchers Peter Goss, Odile Rouquet and Lisa Nelson. In 2006 she went to Ljubljana in Slovenia for an artist residency where she collaborated with various artists and institutions (En Knapp, Maska, Plesni Theater). After creating the trio RE-PLAY (2006) and the solo Latitude de Pose (2007), she kept working in close collaboration with the Slovene scene and developed the site specific piece Of Other for the City Museum in Ljubljana and the group piece AAAAA. Solo for four voices (2008). From 2009 to 2013 she took a long period of research followed by the constitution of her company Arts Mouvementés in Lausanne, and the creation of the solos Le Rituel des Fausses Fleurs (2013), Le Récital des Postures (2014) -awarded by Swiss Dance Award- and La Traversée des Langues (2015). In this period she developed a dance language with a focus on the relation between postures, attention and imagination. Deepening her understanding of the movement of attention, the germination of figures, the idea of postures as containers, she also developed a practice of ventriloquism. After the international recognition, she created La Ronde/Quatuor (2016) for the festival Rencontres chorégraphiques internationales de Seine-Saint-Denis and Venice Dance Biennale, the solo Se Sentir Vivant (2017), the trio Chro no lo gi cal (2018), the group pieces Extensions (2019) and Seven Winters (2020). In 2019 she was artist in residence at Palazzo Butera in Palermo with the support of Istituto Svizzero.
with Ruth Childs, Audrey Gaisan Doncel, Yasmine Hugonnet
concept & choreography Yasmine Hugonnet in collaboration with the performers
assistant & replay Isabelle Vesseron
light design Dominique Dardant
artistic collaboration & voice Mickael Nick
costumes Machteld Vis, Karine Dubois
text Lucrèce,De rerum Natura, Livre V, 534-563 (excerpt from Equilibre de la terre), latin original text, Flammarion, Paris, 1997)
production & touring Jérôme Pique
production Arts Mouvementés
coproduction Théâtre de Vidy Lausanne, Atelier de Paris Carolyn Carlson – CDC, Centre Chorégraphique National de Caen, Centre Chorégraphique National de Rillieux la pape. A coproduction in the frame of the Programmers’ Fund of Reso – Dance Network Switzerland supported by Pro Helvetia, Swiss Arts Council
supported by Canton de Vaud, Ville de Lausanne, Pro Helvetia – Fondation Suisse pour la Culture, Bourse SSA, Loterie Romande, Fondation Ernst Göhner, Fondation Nestlé pour l’art, Fondation Stanley Thomas Johnson
presented with the support of Istituto Svizzero di Roma