ARCHIVES 2015 / Broyage

For Broyage (Grinding), Jessica Batut opens a new horizon through an experiment with language based on a text by Christophe Tarkos Je gonfle, a trance, a prophecy in which the body, animated by contradictory forces, halfway between goddess and malevolent spirit, balks at no transgression. She will challenge evil spirits and cannibalise meaning by playing with metamorphic bodies. Broyage is an exploration of language, of the words Jessica Batut will try to appropriate sometimes by inhabiting them, sometimes by letting them inhabit her, leading to a rhythmic explosion.

Jessica Batut trained at the LASSAAD school in Brussels before joining the school of the TNB, then the CNDC of Angers. She has worked as a performer for Latifa Laâbissi, Stanislas Nordey, Nathalie Garraud, Manah Depauw and Yves-Noël Genod, and has also created three solos as well as a duet with Pep Garrigues, Couché, j'ai dit (Down, I said).

Not one to conform to codes and follow trends, Latifa Laâbissi likes to play with the meaning of the words dance, expression, body, and with the limits between disciplines. Her creations combine sociology, history, aesthetics or anthropology thanks to materials—traces, tales, archives—usually seen as foreign to choreography.