Playback
dance performance, 2010, 60'
The technique of lip-syncing plays at being the real thing; yet it consists of disassociating the sound from its actual source so as to avoid any mistakes on stage or to facilitate the execution of impossible choreography while singing. In Playback, Nicole Seiler applies this procedure while encouraging a passionate reflection on image and sound. She has fun with all that is imperfect and poorly executed, using in the opposite sense the sources of sound, giving new meaning to scenic situations and the movements of the six dancers. A game of collage between the dance, the video, the sound-track and text, Playback plays with the novelty of these fresh combinations, making visible the narrative structure of a performance, all the while shaking our normal modes of perception.
| concept and choreography: | Nicole Seiler |
| performance and choreography: | YoungSoon Cho Jaquet Anne Delahaye Sun-Hye Hur Christophe Jaquet Stéphane Vecchione Mike Winter |
| light design, video: | Stéphane Gattoni |
| costume design: | Claude Rueger |
| sound: | Stéphane Vecchione |
| scenography: | Julien Grob |
| dramaturgy: | Christophe Jaquet Simona Travaglianti |
| tour management: | Tutu Production |
| co-production: | Théâtre Arsenic Lausanne Nuithonie Villars-sur-Glâne Dampfzentrale Bern La Bâtie Festival de Genève Cie Nicole Seiler |
| supported by: |
Ville de Lausanne |
