photo : Jean-Baptiste Bucau
Creation 2021 / SCARBO – A collaboration with Choreographer Ioannis Mandafounis
In Scarbo, the dancer Manon Parent unveils the deep aspects of her personality to the audience. It goes from movement, to emotions, to states, in a fluid, organic, and almost immediate way, without filter or judgment.
Letting ourselves be seen in all our states, a freedom rarely taken, whether these states are emotional or physical, is the core of Scarbo, it is the sharing of intimacy.
All of the performer’s cells seem to vibrate at the different emotional frequencies that move her.
One can wonder if it is about real or fictitious states, memories of the past, a personal history unveiled, because without being however a story, the dance of Manon tells, it communicates with all.
Scarbo thus questions the place of narration in contemporary dance, its usefulness, its form, its integration, and here offers a unique version that is both completely abstract and completely concrete. The performer herself is at the center of this “story” which tells the alignments of her body, her psyche and her emotions.
The solo is accompanied in part by works by Maurice Ravel and Claude Debussy, which reinforces the play’s sometimes cinematographic character. The rhythmic dialogue of colors and textures that takes place between music and dance – which remains free, independent and unpredictable – creates a continuity that feels completely natural and takes viewers into what could be an art film, “live” version.
Concept Ioannis Mandafounis
choreography Ioannis Mandafounis & Manon Parent
Dance Manon Parent
Lights David Kretonic
Production management Mélanie Fréguin
Production’s assistant Anne-Charlotte Hubert
Production Cie Ioannis Mandafounis
Co-production Pavillon-ADC (Ch), Théâtre Le Colombier (Fr)
Supported by City of Geneva, State of Geneva, Swiss Arts Council Pro Helvetia, Lottery romande, Stanley Thomas Johnson foundation, Ernst Göhner foundation, ADC Studios
Dates
2021
29 September – 3 October 2021, Pavillon de la Danse-ADC (Premiere), Geneva, Switzerland
12-16 October 2021, Théâtre Le Colombier, Paris-Bagnolet, France
2-3 December 2021, Dock 11, Berlin, Germany
2022
March 31st-April 1st, Dock 11, Berlin, Germany
June 5th, Stadttheater Giessen, Germany
July 18-24th, Kalamata Dance Festival, Greece
2023
February 1st-4th Théâtre de la Ville Paris, France
November 10th & 11th Festival Euroscene Leipzig, Germany
2024
January 25th – February 17th Bockenheimer Depot Frankfurt & Hellerau Dresden, Germany with Gabriele Carcano live piano
July 3rd & 4th Julidans Amsterdam, Netherlands with Gabriele Carcano live piano
October 4th & 5th Torino Danza Fest, Italy
November 8th Theater Freiburg, Germany December 21st & 22nd Rohm Theatre Kyoto, Japan
photo : Jean-Baptiste Bucau