Empty picture

For this creation, Alexandre Roccoli returned to his family roots. His father was a coal miner, and his body is the bearer of know-how, marked by the repetitiveness of movement.

Empty Picture ‘s challenge was to pass on this memory of the worker’s gesture, and turn it into a choreography akin to a liberating trance. Alexandre Roccoli conducted a series of interviews with miners and workers, then worked with krump dancers to sediment this working-class gesture in the dancers’ bodies. The dancers repeat transmitted movements, make shifts and metamorphoses, and become machines traversing history between past and present.

Credits
Choreography: Alexandre Roccoli
Performer: Mehdi Berkouki/Alexandre Roccoli, Ghyslaine Gau/Anna Vanneau
Music: Benoist Bouvot, Vincent Carpentier
Set design / lighting: Séverine Rième

Production
Production: Cie A Short Term EffectCoproduction / support : Les Subsistances de Lyon, La Scène nationale d’Orléans, CDCN Toulouse Midi Pyrénées l’ADAMI
Partners: Dar Al Mamin, Marrakech, Espace Darja, Casablanca, Région Rhône-Alpes, Institut Français, DRAC Rhône-Alpes, Ville de Lyon