Loin... (Far...)
03/03/2011 - 05/03/2011
Production Details
Where do the boundaries of identiy lie?
How can dance be channeled to reveal traumatic and pleaasurable experiences?
How does one express a history of suffering and violence?
What can dance do that history books can’t?
Ouramdane draws on an intimate and impassioned physicality and an approach to dance that exploits the tools of his generation – video testimonies, sophisticated lighting and recorded soundscapes. Layered with musings on his own hybrid identity, Loin… (Far…) is infused with the personal histories of others, based on the journals his father kept while he was in the French Army during the occupations of Algeria and Vietnam, testimony from his mother and interviews with the victims and heirs of the war in Vietnam.
In his recent projects, Ourmadne has collaborated with documentary-makers in an ongoing drive to radicalise his examination of the boundaries between dance and documentary.
Lights: Pierre Leblanc
Costume and makeup: La Bourette
Set: Sylvain Giraudeau
1 hour
A captivating poetic performance
Review by Shanon O'Sullivan 04th Mar 2011
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A body's legacy of the past
Review by Raewyn Whyte 04th Mar 2011
French dancer-choreographer Rachid Ouramdane’s multimedia performance installation Loin … (Far … ) is a very personal meditation on the nature of identity and the ways in which it is shaped by violence, aggression, war, politics, destruction, and by the legacies of the past we carry with us, especially in our bodies.
Ouramdane has gathered other people’s stories in his quest for understanding – former soldiers, civilian survivors in Cambodia and Vietnam, a displaced Eurasian American still trying to make sense of who he is. [More]
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