MEDIATHEK

The performance was originally created and performed by Montserrat Payro, Sanja Latinovic and Tim Darbyshire during the SKITe/Sweet & Tender Collaborations / Porto 2008. In August 2008, Jean-Marc Adolphe, Editor in Chief of the magazine Mouvement, invited me to work with the group SKITE/Sweet & Tender Collaborations, PORTO 2008. It is a group of 46 artists working together over a 5 week period in the same city in order to create new works. I initiated with them a project I called BATTEMENT, questioning the quality of an abstract movement, the grand battement, the high-kicking, emblematic movement of classical ballet. I immediately thought of the famous French cancan, and also of specific movements used in the ritual of the "changing of the guard", in particular the Pakistani version of that ritual. The idea of the project was to work from this movement, establishing a dialogue between the three dancers. [Quelle: www.davidwampach.eu/index.php?/creations/battement/] isrr