D.U.O. - D'Univers Obliques

On the screen: projection of one danceer dancing among the trees, in the snow, in the wind. The choreography reveals the fusion between the human being and nature. A second dancer is filmed in a city environnement. The over blending of those two world creates rhythmic and sound variations, which underline the relationship man/nature.

On the stage: the same dancers cross the space in slow motion. The scene becomes the symbol of life, its experiences, and the path still to be followed.

A singer improvises, life, building a bridge between the video and te stage, between nature and city.

The tension created between the video and the movement on stage is an attempt to get closer to the essence of the human being, both his animalistic side – which belongs to nature – as well as his entirely human side – which belongs to conscience.

The theme mankind/nature is very actual, due to the fact that nowadays we live in the ambiguity of wanting to take distance from nature, which is considered hostile, dangerous or necessary of domestication, and the growing ecological preoccupations. As human beings we acknowledge the fact that if we raise ourselves above nature we destruct the foundation of life, but we still continue to violate our world.

The collaboration between Martin Manfred Bartelt and Jacques Morard over the last ten years has led them towards this search for the embracement of mankind. The two artists are united in their love of the honesty of the individual, far away from any pretence. Their research as creators and interpreters has allowed them to develop their own personal preparation on the stage in order to appear always more authentic in front of the telecameras and the public. This leads to a purification between the role of the actor and the dance in order to arrive at the essential.

Moi, l’Amour et la Foule

Crédit photo obligatoire: Michele Engeler

In a pared down world, a dancer glides through an emotional draught-board, the self facing the self, another, all others.

The spectator takes a journey in three scenes and is delicately transported in the flow of their own emotions, the dancer becoming the mirror of impulses, frustrations and private desires.

Despite the eddies and steep climbs – accepting we are alive, in love, on a quest – we return to our daily life now aware of the obvious beauty of being a human being.

The companies OBVIAM EST and TACTUS, are both exponents of choreographic  theatre, offering the spectator raw feelings, a transparency without frills. The human being is central to their search, as a phenomenon and as an object of love.

The barrier between disciplines is broken down. Music, text, dance and video follow each other combining to transport spectators, inviting them to create associations based on their own experience, the narrative allowing individual interpretation.

Martin Bartelt trained in Germany at Folkwang University; dances, choreographs and teaches, motivated by the desire to make the stage more human.

Jacques Morard straddles the world of theatre and dance, keeping a balance, to create a space for the emotional, which he constantly reinvents.

The show is set in the visual world of Markus Egloff.

Un temps pour

Men’s choir, boys and grown up. Church choir. A configuration that has existed since the Middle Ages.

Latin and Gregorian songs, sung since the Middle Ages.

White dresses, wooden cross, used since the Middle Ages

…and nevertheless, the dress removed, young people from the XXI century -unshaven and with shaggy hair, rasta…- scatter in the streets of the old town.

Times confront each other without the protagonists seeming to notice.

A church choir and nevertheless, an open faith, neither moralist or dogmatic.

During six minutes, a collage mixes images of the choir from the Schola in Sion; dressed in white and singing a "Tenebrea Facte Sunt", with images of the same people in their everyday life and the one of a dancer moving through scenes of different times back to Middle Age. Off Voice a text of the Ecclesiaste picks off the “there is a time for…” without any values’ judgment.

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During a six minute collage. . . images of the choir from the Schola in Sion; dressed in white singing a 'Tenebrea Facte Sunt' . . . and images of the same people in their everyday life, combine with one of the dancer moving through scenes back to the Middle Ages. Off-stage a voice narrates the text of  'Ecclesiaste' “there is a time for…” without any values’ judgment.

A poetic journey with the passing of the time