Marie-Caroline Hominal
BAT
  • Jakub Wittchen
  • Jakub Wittchen
  • Jakub Wittchen
  • Jakub Wittchen
  • Jakub Wittchen
  • Jakub Wittchen
  • Jakub Wittchen
  • Jakub Wittchen
  • Jakub Wittchen
  • Jakub Wittchen
  • Jakub Wittchen
  • Jakub Wittchen
  • Jakub Wittchen
  • Jakub Wittchen
  • Jakub Wittchen
  • Jakub Wittchen
  • Jakub Wittchen
  • Jakub Wittchen
  • Jakub Wittchen
  • Jakub Wittchen
  • Jakub Wittchen
  • Jakub Wittchen
  • Jakub Wittchen
  • Jakub Wittchen
  • Jakub Wittchen
  • Jakub Wittchen
  • Jakub Wittchen
  • Jakub Wittchen
  • Jakub Wittchen
26.06.2013
Studio Słodownia +3

The title of the show may refer to an animal, a bat, however, may also be read as an abbreviation of: Bold Action Tool, Bad As That, blood-sucking BAT, Beautiful Anonymous Tragedy or Be Always There. The artist explores different forms of anonymity and the processes of camouflage and transformation. Balancing on high heels, “deprived” of face, she becomes a well lubricated body – insane, spinning and unbridled. A boxer enters a ring and starts a silent conversation with invisible limitations. In one corner, metronome precision of a sportsman getting ready for a fight; in the second, a victim undergoing a metamorphosis, getting blows which in fact never reach her. The boxer is the embodiment of intensity, effectiveness, concentration and strength, a counterpoint to the fragmentary and chaotic nature of the victim. The show is reminiscent of movement spreading like a lightning, energy which transforms into violence. In BAT, MCH questions various processes of camouflage, transformation and anonymity. On stage, a boxer acts as a counter-point to herself: he embodies intensity, efficiency, focus and power whereas she is fragmented and chaotic. BAT is a hard movement, our generation. A movement which spreads like a storm. An energy which turns into violence, that energy we find in life.

performed by Jérémie Canabate i Marie-Caroline Hominal

original text Marvin Victor (Dialogue des Morts) i MCH

set and costume MCH

music and sound Clive Jenkins

additional music Jimmy Ohio – www.jimmyohio.com

light design Jonathan O’Hear

technical realization techniczna Victor Roy

management Stéphane Noël i Yvan Barbafieri

production MadMoiselle MCH Association-Genf

co-production Association pour la Danse Contemporaine – Genève i Théâtre Arsenic – Lausanne

created during residencies at ADC Genève, Tanzhaus NRW Düsseldorf, PACT Zollverein Essen i Tanzhaus Zürich

Artists
Francja, Szwajcaria