Hidden in the shadows of time, the dance begins its monologue with infinity. Sinuous movements blend with an Asian-themed melody, showing the inexorable passage of time, a strong duality swathed in emotion. The body melts into its lighting, follows it, breaks away – the body almost outside itself, watching itself, giving birth to itself once again. Slow, contained, powerful movements.
The Post-Retroguardia company has upped the stakes of contemporary dance by exposing onstage the roots of music and movement. Paco Dècina uses his choreographic experience to create a piece moving between air and space, an exceptional vocabulary of shapes introduced to a new audience, expressing a strange, intense emotion. One must see this piece more than once to fully understand it; you immediately see the originality of the piece which changes as soon as you think you’ve become part of it. This dance arouses and enchants with its skill and delicacy.
A dancer who dances with his own body as if he were a stranger whose body he must explore, living inside the music, a butterfly playing with light. Non era giorno, non era notte, places itself in our primordial past where nothing and no one existed before.
One feels the empty space, it becomes a key part of the solitude of rough metallic musicality, with its bitingly simple sounds.
An evening which leaves us with a feeling of detachment, the feeling that there is something dark playing with the light and the darkness, hidden behind an innocent movement mirroring the birth of civilisation.
Aubusson • Danse at TJL
Paco Decina is not entirely unknown in Aubusson where he passed as a Shooting Star more than ten years ago. He returns with a duet: Neti-Neti (neither this nor that) and a solo Non era giorno, non era notte (It was not the day, it was not night), two surprising choreographies.
Neti-Neti — Paco Décina is a choreographer who does not hesitate to draw from his experiences as a painter, engineer, decorator, costume designer to write his choreographies. It creates a constant relationship between the performer, the work and the viewer. Neti-Neti is an anthem dedicated to the expression of the male-female couple. The lucid variation of the states of tension and rapprochement, through which the two bodies pass, forms the singular alchemy of the choreography. The fluidity, the slowness, the clarity of the movements reflect, through music of sacred character, a serenity in which one can only dive.
"Dance is not the space traveled, but the movement being accomplished..."
Rosita Boisseau writes: " His work of hands and arms, always sumptuous, makes the honey of the duo Neti-Neti. Back-to-back, a man and a woman tie their soft arms like nooses, intertwine and slip into the heart of the secret that binds male and female. In one breath, they repeat their message of beauty in permanent metamorphosis. Neti-Neti, neither this nor that, but exactly that, conveys the evidence of a dance, a point transmutation of cosmic energy."
It has been said that Paco Dècina was the dancer of the immobile as his choreographies seem to be created in recollection. It is a work of passage that asks to get out of the rumor of the world to surrender to space and silence.
He explains: "I am at a stage in my research where I need to let escape all the words, projects and ideas built to invent and project to the body a "white space". A space dedicated to what is neither emotional nor psychological, free from desire and fear and listening to "movement". Every movement is change and change in a growth process requires, at one time or another, a dissociating of memory (matter).
Dance movement is the tension between a subtle energy that needs form to form and a compact organization that seeks to evaporate (memory). Dance is therefore the place of form that seeks the freedom of the formless, it is a return to the shores. This fluence of matter, this freedom of the joints, this "tactility" beyond the skin, which bring the world, are the themes of this duo ."
This means that everything takes place in between; with Neti-Neti first, as well as in the solo course Non era giorno, non era notte.
Non era giorno, non era notte — "In another time, that of oblivion, we return to the old paths of becoming. These trajectories with different densities, in which we slide to replay and witness rhythms and cycles. In this abandonment, supported by emptiness and guided by the thread of movement, we immerse ourselves in this flavor that seems to be closer to infinity ." Paco Dècina"
Non era giorno, non era notte: choreography and interpretation: Paco Dècina. Lights: Laurent Schneegans. Music: Raga Des, Harsh Wardham (bansuri flute). Costumes: Paco Decina.
Neti-Neti: choreography Paco Dècina with Valeria Apicella, Paolo Rudelli. Lights: Joel Hourbeigt. Assistant lights: Laurent Schneegans. Sound creation and production: Olivier Renouf. Music: Galina Pjankovna Vamujto, voice of the Arctic Finistère, Nemec tribe, ritual of the order of Drupka Kagyo, Satya Dev Pawar violin, Raga Maru-Bihag North India.