Humor
| Creation 2001 for 6 dancers - 60' | |
Humor - 2001
HUMOR is interested in streams, rush, energy that cannot be contained or cannot be defined under any form.
Matrix where bricks of ancient and future forms, distinct and partially erased signs.
In a compact noisy mass can level melodic moments, known refrains echoes.
What the body will carry and what will cart him – its intimate fluids and the forces over him.
The word “ humour - from the Latin word “humor” describing all kinds of body liquids - was used in medieval times. The ancient physicians believed there were four humours (the blood, phlegm, yellow bile or choler, and black bile or melancholy), on the relative proportion of which the temperament and health depended. Later, under the English renaissance, it was characterized under the form of different excesses of which the irrational part or immoral damages needed to be corrected.
Humour was then describing the consequences of the loss of balance between the different humours and composed in the XVIth and XVIIth century a new literary genre which privileged the picturesque, the ludicrous, the unexpected...
Coproduction : Mi-Octobre/Cie Serge Ricci – Centre National de la Danse
With the funding of Ville de Paris, with the support of l’Association Beaumarchais, ANPE / Réseau Culture Spectacle and Forum Culturel Autrichien.
La Compagnie Mi-Octobre is funded by DRAC Ile de France - French Ministery of Culture.










