moteur2022for le ballet de l’opéra national de lyon

In this solo, the dancer, balancing on one foot, initiates a step that he never takes. In the meantime, he probes, he approaches, he almost completes the form that this step might take.

A step is analysed here through the very lens of the prohibition against taking it. Under the effect of this constraint, the movements of the locomotor system are freed from their original function. From the act of moving from one place to another — which is locomotion — only the movement itself remains.

Thinking of Trisha.