“Visible and mobile, my body is a thing among things ; it is caught in the fabric of the world, and its cohesion is that of a thing. But because it moves itself and sees, it holds things in a circle around itself. Things are an annex or prolongation of itself, they are incrusted into its flesh, they are part of its full definition the world is made of the same stuff as the body.”

Merleau-Ponty, eye and the Mind, 1960

A proposition to follow the metamorphosis of a body, and to enter into a confusion analogue to what governs the dream state.

To invent a process of acceleration that consists of mixing epoch, moment and time, leaving time escape it’s own chronology, that axe that gives time it’s progression in one direction or another. The notions of before, and after, meld, resting on the command of another order, space shrinks and becomes the reflection of a time that has lost all it’s thickness and that has become a circular structure caught in a subjective duration.

Searching for the shape of contracted matter and being, the erosion of energy of one system, where the body unveils itself at the moment when we would want to veil it.

There is in this project the physical adventure to attain beings in their most immediate presence, one of their flesh, the other of the environment.

Serge Ricci

Created the 20th of June 2005 for the June Connivences Festival – Nantes Choreographic Centre.

Co production : Dance company Mi-Octobre/ Serge Ricci – Nantes National Choreographic

Centre- Brumachon/Lamarche – Forum de Blanc Mesnil – Micadanses(Paris).

The Mi-Octobre dance company is funded the DRAC Ile-de France.

The Mi-Octobre dance company was in residency at Micadanses (2005-2006) and at Forum de Blanc Mesnil, with the funding of Conseil Général de la Seine-Saint Denis (2005-2008).