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Clément Layes / Public in Private - Allege



(2010, 50')

concept and choreography Clément Layes
performance Vincent Weber
dramaturgy Jasna L. Vinovrski
music David Byrne
costume design Public in Private
lighting design Ruth Waldeyer, Florian Bach
a production by Public in Private - Clément Layes
thanks to Sophiensæle, Tanztage Berlin, Festival Ardanthé, Dock 11, CND Paris
Allege was funded by the Governing Mayor of Berlin - Senate Chancellery - Cultural Affairs

 

The purchase of the ticket for this show will allow you to assist to the performance Oblò (30’) at 8.45 p.m. – Arsenale Foyer Tese (free entrance subject to seating availability)

Author's statement

Allege is the first performance I made. It is a solo and was premiered in January 2009 in Berlin. It was then performed in many countries in Europe and North America, first only by me then also by my friend Vincent Weber. In this first performance, I wanted to create a meaningful gesture to respond to what was happening in the year of its making: the financial crises and the unsuccessful conference of Copenhagen on climate change. I was searching for ways to reopen an horizon of hope. After years of work I had developed a technic of balancing object and the performance took the form of a challenge, a multi-tasking activity in which I was to construct relation between objects while balancing a glass of water on my head. It is as well a system of signs, as in the piece objects carry conceptual meaning and are moved around and organized according to this meaning, which is only later explained. The text in the second part of the performance, is giving an insight into the activity of the first part of the performance, but the metaphoric game in which things became concept is also moved to another level and becomes itself a a sign.

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