2024: This residency in BUDA is the first step into this new work. As they will be entering the process, they will physically focus on the statement where this project originates: “to create a piece without being its author”. They will set up two types of concrete research: one going through the set of gestures that more or less each and every Human experienced once. They call them archaic gestures: grabbing, grasping, rolling, crawling etc. And another one focuses on their personal dancing, willing to retrace and name our dance and gestural habits in order to get a better understanding of where they are originating and confront with what they (don’t) know, (don’t) like… and what they want to create from that.

2025: The residence period in BUDA coincides with the moment they switch from general research to creating the piece on stage. Dance, music, light, costumes, space, getting ready to do a very first run through at the end of the residency!

Rémy Héritier (FR)

Rémy Héritier has created more than a dozen works since 2004. In these different pieces, he involves in his choreographic writing the reoccurrence of temporal, spatial strata in places, developing the depth of the past to reach the present. This archaeological excavation in a given context, his personal history of dance as well as that of his/her collaborators, enables him to shift towards notions linked to other disciplines such as intertextuality, re-enactment or the Third landscape, and thereby to convoke a new poetics of gesture.

He favors both long-term processes and interventions in specific territories to address art forms that belong to both performance and exhibition. Dispositions (2008), Chevreuil (2009), Une étendue (2011), Percée Persée (2014), Here, then (2015), Une danse ancienne (Prilly, Grenoble, Cajarc – 2020-(…)) and Une forme brève (2021) have been regularly shown in France and abroad, both in and outside the theater.