Alix Eynaudi french dancer/choreographer based in Vienna. She has been developing her artistic work and physical practice in Brussels since 1998, where she studied at P.A.R.T.S. and danced for 6 years with Rosas, Anne-Teresa De Keersmaeker's company. She has been creating her own works while continuing to develop her career as a performer i.e with Superamas, Rosas. Anne Juren, Kris Verdonck and Boris Charmatz. Her productions: Crystalll (2005) in collaboration with Alice Chauchat, Supernaturel (2007), Komposition (2008) in collaboration with Anne Juren, Marianne Baillot and Agata Maszkiewicz, The Visitants (2008) and Long Long Short Long Short (2009) with Agata Maszkiewicz, and her last creation Monique (2012) with Mark Lorimer. She also teaches workshops regularly, a.o in PARTS, Brussels, ImPulsTanz, Vienna, at the Panetta Movement Centre, New York, and at the Danish National School of Contemporary Dance.
Mark Lorimer is an English dancer. After studies at the London Contemporary Dance School and experience in Lea Anderson’s company, he moved to Brussels, where he worked in several productions by the choreographers Michèle Anne de Mey and Anne-Teresa De Keersmaeker. In addition to extensive experience with Rosas, in 1997 he became a founding member of the company Zoo with Thomas Hauert, with whom has has worked for eight years. His creations include: Nylon Solution, a choreography with Chrysa Parkinson, the video installation Mirror Modulation and the duo To Intimate with Cynthia Loemij. He has worked in projects for Bock & Vincenzi, Mia Lawrence, Jonathan Burrows, Deborah Hay and Alix Eynaudi. He teaches at P.A.R.T.S. in Brussels, ImPulsTanz in Vienna, The Laban Centre and LCDS in London, Panetta Movement Centre and Movement Research in New York.
Alix Eynaudi
Monique
performance, italian première
coreography Alix Eynaudi
performers Alix Eynaudi & Mark Lorimer
costume design An Breugelmans
collaborators Lars Kwakkenbos, Karen Lambæk, Jean-Luc Plouvier, Bruno Pocheron, Herman Venderickx & Kris Verdonck
photography Alexander Meeus
booklet design Compagnie Paul Verrept
production Margarita Production for the Other vzw
coproduction Kaaitheater, Tanzquartier Wien, Buda, Workspace Brussels
with the support of Pianofabriek, Wp Zimmer, Vooruit, Flemish authorities & network DEPARTS - the Culture Program of the European Commission, INTPA - International Net for Dance and Performance Austria of Tanzquartier Wien from funds by BMUKK and BMeiA
thanks to Maîtresse Athena & Monique
In Monique Alix Eynaudi and Mark Lorimer merge, subverting values, various techniques and imagery related to the body: gymnastics, contemporary and modern dance sexual games, and movement therapy. "SM meets action art meets contact improvisation meets les ballets russes". Monique puts together and takes apart rituals involving bodies, objects and costumes, opening up many possibilities of transition and passage from one point to another. The aesthetics of Monique do not stop at the cliché, but go on to discover the potential of the other side. In a historic suspension, lights, décor and music trample with impunity the ideas of good taste, in the quest for a liberation of theatre. In Monique it is clear that things on stage have a body, and between these bodies, as well as in the air, there is a constant electricity: there is something animistic.