Choreography: Stanislaw Wisniewski Music: Teed Zahmal Light design: Cyril Benhaim Set design: Perrine Leclere Costumes: Celine Pigeot Dancers: Karen Gaborel, Cecile Pegaz, Serge Malet, Aurelien le Glaunec Time: 55 min Premiere: November 2004
Who talks? Most of the time, nowadays, we read, listen, watch, digest a mass of signs without knowing nothing who and where they come from… Primitivism of modernity…
Here are the dancer and the choreographer talking. Asked about his origins, he tells about massive displaces of people in his country, lost of territory, and his final exile …
He displays walls of mirrors to capture himself in his plurality and the spectator makes conscious the show of reflections at stage. In this very specific space, the spectator has to face himself in the mirrors and see the dancers performance from the back also… Enclosed in the darkness, the glance is diffracted in this intimate identity reflection.
This creation will collect pictures about its author and lead to a serial portrait in-progress… It’ll go through his own history that belongs also to us. That looks like modern age though widespread and repetitive processes of brutal or insidious alienation. Eternal and internal exile, where one has to free himself again and again from moving boundaries…
Stanislaw Wisniewski begun his artistic career as a classic dancer in Poland. He acquired a wide choreographic background in traditional and modern dance as well. He involved himself in the first creations of contemporary dance in Poland with Conrad Drzewiecki and the Polish Dance Theatre in Poznań. Twenty years ago, he settled in France where he found opportunity to use and develop the whole palette of his artistic expression in neoclassical, modern-dance, and contemporary repertory. Invited to join the Ballet d’Avignon, the Ballet du Rhin, and the Ballet de l’Opéra National de Lyon, he danced as a soloist for choreographers such as Maguy Marin, Bill T. Jones, Angelin Preljocaj, Mats Ek, Christopher Bruce, William Forsythe. Whithin the Opéra National de Lyon he created his first own pieces, and was distinguished with the award of the Tokyo International Choreography Competition. Thanks to the support from the City of Vaulx en Velin and its Charlie Chaplin Cultural Centre, he established his own company Compagnie Stanislaw Wisniewski in 1995. The Company is regularly supported by: DRAC, The Regional Council of Rhones-Alpes, French Association of Art Activities (AFAA).