DANCE ! creation documentary

Maya Balam Meyong, photo by Kyle Knodell

The disorder and imbalance of men as much as that of machines shame us.  We plan to film the man incapable of controlling the evolutions. (Dziga Vertov)

How can we reconnect with the physical world, with matter, and especially with our bodies, when everything seems increasingly dematerialised?

Today the marriage to the machines has indeed taken place. Perhaps a bit too successfully, and isolates us from each other in the limbo of interfaces. What can we still experience that is truly profound? Is the world still touching us? Today, would it not be a new alliance with the body that should be made? Find the meaning of the world. In these strange times, we need anchor points, we are eager for connections. But the real, the tangible, the here and now are out of reach.

Started during the Covid pandemic, we filmed dancers deprived of the stage. They had to reinvent their art. An art which no longer passed through the “exhibition”. But through the appropriation of other poetic means, the invention of other types of space, to nurture new forms of transmission. With the idea of ​​rethinking, decomposing and recomposing an art in perpetual motion. 

Neoten immersed in this fertile artistic ground and tried to capture a dialogue where dance becomes film and film becomes dance.

Maya Balam Meyong, photo by Christopher Jones

There is dance as an artistic experience.
There is dance as a social experience.

Before that. Beyond that. At the same time. All over. All the time.

Dance is an evidence.

s o m e r e s e a r c h f r a g m e n t s :

“When I dance, I connect to matter, my feet on the ground, anchored to the earth. I perceive its density, its texture. I sink into it. I push myself away from it.”

“When I dance, I connect to light. It allows me to see the matter, to perceive and shape it. It is immaterial matter.”

“When I dance, I connect to space, in which matter and light take shape. In which all my perceptions reside. An imaginary body.”

“When I dance, I connect to time. If space is an imaginary body, time is a fictitious movement. (Paul Valéry). Duration, speed, repetition, suspension.”

“When I dance, I connect to the void. The void that begins from within me and contains all possibilities. The universe itself.”