PULSE TRIPTYCH (2005)

The PULSE triptych is inspired by François Cheng's book "Vide et Plein, le langage pictural chinois "(Fullness and Emptiness, the Chinese pictorial language). It includes PETIT PULSE (a little physical poem inside the restricted space of a puppet theater; estranged movements, moving light and an only partially visible body defy our perception and deconstruct the human appearance), PULSE SOLO (light, sound and dance create together a pulsation between private and public, presence and absence, fullness and emptiness) and the duo PULSE+.

Concept: Melanie Munt
Choreography and dance:
Melanie Munt and, for the duet Pulse+, Aleksandra Janeva
Light design: Laurence Halloy
Sound design: Antonin De Bemels
Production : Quoi d'Autre asbl

about PETIT PULSE:
Light can change the appearance of shapes by creating apparent but fictive connections between body parts and it can give the impression of movement in an immobile body if the direction of the rays are changing slightly. These are elements that estrange the human appearance. I try to strengthen that alienation by playing around with and changing the natural dynamic of human movements and by keeping always some body parts covered.
The intimacy of the restricted space of a black box similar to a puppet theater and a restricted distance between me and the audience allows a focus / zoom on the body and therefore more subtle movements than those possible on stage. By composing with recorded natural sounds that would in normal life barely be audible and by synchronizing a body movement with an 'inappropriate' sound that results of a movement of a different material, Antonin is creating the impression of abnormal closeness and enhances the alienation of human physicality.

(Please refer to the French text for more information about PULSE SOLO and PULSE+.)