In «Bombyx Mori», three dancers fly through the venue like giant black butterflies, their meter-long costumes producing bizarre sounds. Inspired by Loïe Fuller, the early American avant-gardist and inventor of the «Serpentine Dance», which primarily involved her moving a silky dress around her body in circular and wave-shaped patterns, Ola Maciejewska replicates the hypnotic Serpentine Dance. With «Bombyx Mori», the silk worm butterfly, she uses a metaphor for Fuller’s «Serpentine Dance» that demonstrates the critical potential of this spectacular dance: The audience is guided to overcome the binary divisions standing opposite each other, like: Body and object, physical and non-physical, rational beings and irresponsible creatures.
30.10. As part of Tanz in Bern
Conception and choreography: Ola Maciejewska
Performance: Amaranta Velarde Gonzalez, Ola Maciejewska, Maciej Sado
Live sound processing: Carola Caggiano together with the dancers
Light and technical direction: Rima Ben Brahim
Costume: Valentine Solé
Production and administration: Caroline Redy
With support from the Hermès Foundation within the framework of the programme New Settings.
Production: SO WE MIGHT AS WELL DANCE
Co-production: Ménagerie de verre – Paris (FR), LE CN D un centre d’art pour la danse (FR), Productiehuis Rotterdam (NL), Veem House for Performance (NL), Centre chorégraphique national de Caen en Normandie in the frame of « Artiste associé » program.
With the kind support of Vivarium Studio, Nanterre-Amandiers – Centre Dramatique National.
Acknowlegments to Thomas Laigle in helping to conceive the original sound and light arrangements.
With thanks to ICK Amsterdam, Judith Schoneveld, Nienke Scholes.
