Étienne Guilloteau graduated from the Brussels PARTS school with his performance “Love me two times”. In this solo choreography, he intelligently portrayed the uncertain relationship between memories and body memory. The duet skènè, featuring Claire Croizé, is similarly intelligent in its concept, but undeniably impactful on an emotional level as well.

Skènè is accompanied by a quote by Gilles Deleuze: “a child in the dark, wrapped in fear, singing encourages itself. He marches with the song. Lost, he finds a hiding place, or following the words of the chant, he seeks the right path as best he can. The song is like an outline of peace and stability in the midst of chaos.”

In the play, that chaos is the emptiness of the stage. At first, there is nothing but a chair and Claire standing next to it. She puts the chair on her feet, watches it, dances with it. Nothing really happens, not even when she kicks the chair violently. All her actions demand some kind of “response” from the chair: jumping over it, lying under the chair, throwing and dancing with it… All these actions are to some extent abstract, but it is hard not to notice in them the metaphor of loneliness. This feeling of loneliness will remain in the performance until the end, even when Etienne appears on stage (…) This impression is intensified by the lack of literal contact between the dancers, although their gestures are performed in perfect synchrony. However, they remain only empty signs. The dancers, on the other hand, remain alone together. (…)

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