Erase-e(x)

ERASE-E(X) (2004, 2005)

Inspired by the painting Erased De Kooning Drawing (1953) in which Robert Rauschenberg erased a drawing of Willem De Kooning and in doing so made it substantially his own, Joji Inc has imagine ERASE-E(X), a multi parts project in which several choreographers are invited to erase and recreate the preceding one.

It stars with a dance material provided by A.T de Keersmaeker. The Wooster Group of New York erases this prologue. Then is erased by A.T de Keersmaeker who is erased by Isabella Soupart who is erased by the Video performer Kurt D'Hasealeer etc.

Prologue dance material by Anne Teresa de Keersmaeker

Part 1 : The form of Anne Teresa De Keersmaeker dance is erased by The Wooster Group in stages as each choreographic gesture is infused with the psychological content of Godard's "modern women", capricious, royal, mysterious.

Part 2 : A.T de Keersmaeker takes back all the Wooster Group's material, erases any psychological content to create a virtuoso piece danced to the Indian percussion music of Umayalpuram Sivaraman, and Dolly Parton ' s"Jolene".

Part 3 : Isabella Soupart deletes the second part and creates a piece between theater and dance. A duo/duel with a touch a cruel thriller. A feeling of emergency. Of a man facing a woman he thinks he recognises. a complex story slowly revealed itself. Physical and rhythmical tainted of a laced cinematographic naturalism with humour and drama. It is the deconstruction of the text and movement that gushes with its entire force into this direction.

Concept : Joji Inc.
Choreography : Wooster Group , A.T. De Keersmaeker and Isabella Soupart.
Interpretation : Johanne Saunier, Charles François (part 3)
Scenography : Jim Clayburgh
Music: Georges Delerue (original film soundtrack of Contempt -JL Godard), percussion of Umayalpuram Sivaraman, Dolly Parton, Kip Harrahan, John Zorn, Angelo Badalamenti

Production : Joji Inc. Met de steun van de Vlaamse minister van Cultuur Jeugd, sport en Brussel, Réalisé avec l'aide du Ministère de la Communauté française, service de la danse, met de steun de Vlaamse Gemeenschapscommissie van het Brussels Hoofdstedelijk Gewest. Remerciements a l'agence Wallonie-Bruxelles Theatre/Danse.

Length: 1h

Created in 2004 and 2005 within le "Sujet à Vif", co production SACD/ Festival d'Avignon

Check as well ERASE...la suite

(.) une chorégraphie pleine de vivacité, de punch, de vituosité.(...) on est soufflé par la puissance et la rapidité de ce solo éblouissant.

Jean Marie Wynants, Le Soir, 26/03/05

(...)le concept transposé à la danse fourmille de trésors, d'énergie, pour composer une soirée dense, intense.

Marie Baudet La libre Belgique 25/03/05

(...) Johanne Saunier, in the Wooster Group's choreography touched [the public] with the quality of her interpretation. Irritated, she dances on the original soundtrack of Jean Luc Godard's Contempt. A tribute to whim, to nervousness , to tormented female beauty....

Marie Christine Vernay en Avignon, Libération, 15/07/04