Study #1, performed at ADA studio, Berlin, on May 21st and 22nd 2016
Solid Rock Interaction presents – embodied by one dancer on stage – a body-ear, a body-instrument, and a music-oriented body-score.
The project, originating in the desire of choreographer and musician Manon Parent and percussionist Pascal Parent – daughter and father – to collaborate, is a dialogue between their respective practices, dance and music, in which they seek a ”rhythmical understanding”. Motivated by a rhythmical structure written by Pascal Parent, Manon Parent developed a physical score where the body, in order to fulfill its tasks, changes its normal response patterns. This body is also responding to its societal environment ; the choreography is therefore partly referring to war aesthetics, physical training and submissive acts.
Study #2, performed at ADA studio, Berlin, on June 11th 2017
Solid Rock Interaction #2 is a parcours for two performers wearing roller-blade protections and several objects, chosen for their « rocking » sonic qualities. It stages several interactions between a containing space, objects and humans. It re-evaluates the pre-estabished hierarchy bewteen organic and mineral presences on the stage as well as in the artistic process and, more generally, the agency which is granted to matter(s). Through the prism of that question, the piece pays attention to what motivates the movements and sound-making of the two humans, and to the many possible shifts of intentionality their actions have. Solid Rock Interaction treats integration of matter by humans and integration of humans by matter on a sonic and choreographic plane. It is a non- psychological piece which seeks a relief of the human speech and domination.
Concept : manon parent
By and with : the survival covers, miriam siebenstädt (jean p’ark), the metal balls, manon parent, the rocks, the metal trays
Dramaturgie: zwoisy mears-clarke