Borderline

For 13 dancers
Created at the Berlin Komische Oper in June 2002.
French premiere : September 2002, Maison des Arts de Créteil.
Timing : 75 mn

By Blanca Li and the Studio Orta
Choreography and conception : Blanca Li
Music : Matthew Herbert and Tao Gutierrez
Textile architecture and conception : Lucy Orta
Installation and video conception : Jorge Orta
Video : Charles Carcopino, Maison des Arts de Créteil
Lights : Jorge Orta and Thierry Lenain.

Producers : Berlin Ballett at Komische Oper Berlin, the Compagnie Blanca Li Paris, Studio Orta Paris, la Maison des Arts de Créteil, le Moulin du Roc Niort, l’Opéra de Massy, La Caisse des Dépôts en faveur de la danse, la Direction Régionale des affaires culturelles d’Ile de France – Ministère de la Culture et de la Communication.

Borderline is a choreographic project at the intersection of dance, music and art, which explores the thin line between normality and insanity. Deeply impressed by Lucy and Jorge Orta’s project “Life Nexus“ at the Psychiatric Clinic Robert Giffard in Québec, Blanca Li managed to work with those two artists for her own creation. Their creative trio focused its research on a contemporary madness. Who is really crazy ? Lunatics walking in the street ? The world itself ? Always with humour and a great sense of comedy, Borderline explores the numerous ways of being “different”: from those who indulge in craziness to those who suffer from it. A tragicomic show, oscillating between dynamic fits and darker moments of despondency.
The choreography itself is developped from the constraint of objects created by Lucy and Jorge Orta. The accessories and moves were born at the same time, during the phase of writing. The theme of constraint is declined in various ways in every scene of this total performance, structuring the matter as well as the body, in the rythm of burlesque and reflexive situations.

Dates de tournée

Meaux
/
France
30 April 2004
Théâtre Luxembourg
Meudon
/
France
28 April 2004
Centre d'Art et Culture
Quimper
/
France
2 April 2004
Théâtre de Cornouailles
Béthune
/
France
30 March 2004
Théâtre Bethune
Bordeaux
/
France
12 February 2004
Grand Théâtre
Les 12 et 13 février
Ibos
/
France
6 February 2004
Le Parvis
Bagneux
/
France
3 February 2004
Théâtre Victor Hugo
Caen
/
France
27 January 2004
Le Théâtre
Béziers
/
France
17 January 2004
Le Théâtre
Aulnay-sous-Bois
/
France
9 January 2004
Espace J. Prévert
Sartrouville
/
France
6 January 2004
Le Théâtre
Bilbao
/
Espagne
1 November 2003
Teatro de Bilbao
Vannes
/
France
17 October 2003
Le Palais des Arts
Saint-Brieuc
/
France
14 October 2003
La Passerelle
Dunkerque
/
France
27 June 2003
Le Bateau Feu
Brest
/
France
27 May 2003
Le Quartz
Noisy-Le-Grand
/
France
14 March 2003
Espace Michel Simon
Chelles
/
France
25 January 2003
Théâtre
Berlin
/
Allemagne
24 January 2003
Komische Oper Berlin Ballet
Corbeil-Essonnes
/
France
18 January 2003
Théâtre Corbeil
Blagnac
/
France
11 December 2002
Odyssud
Les 11 et 12 déc.
Massy
/
France
6 December 2002
Opéra
Vesoul
/
France
29 November 2002
Théâtre Edwige Feuillere
Draguignan
/
France
12 November 2002
Archipels
Niort
/
France
6 November 2002
Moulin du Roc
Malakoff
/
France
23 October 2002
Théâtre 71
Madrid
/
Espagne
17 October 2002
Festival d'Automne
Du 17 au 20 octobre
Nanterre
/
France
11 October 2002
Maison de la Musique
Maubeuge
/
France
8 October 2002
Le Manège
Créteil
/
France
25 September 2002
Maison des Arts et de la Culture
Première Borderline, du 25 au 28 sept.
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