Interview of the artists of the Cie Bleu Printemps in residence to work on their show “900 something Days Spent in the XXth Century” last December on the 14th and the 18th.
900 something Days is not designed for a specific place, but for a plurality of potential spaces. We start by looking for a urban and/or an industrial space, whether abandoned or already reclaimed: storing and loading warehouses, parking places and factories, docks... Unlike the theater scenic layout that is dreamed as a blank canvas, all these places are charged historically, politically, operationally. They have in common that they were not designed to accommodate choreography. If we are drawn to the architectural ruins of theses spaces, it’s because their remains offer us new resources to which the dancing can be confronted. We extend the traces and echoes of all the bodies – human or not – that have worked (in) this place before us.