Boris Charmatz “SOMNOLE”

Often choreographic ideas emerge just before falling asleep, in a somnolent state of latency which is full of potential. In the solo performance SOMNOLE, Boris Charmatz – one of France’s most celebrated contemporary choreographers – explores the transitional state of hibernation, paying attention to what lies underneath the surface, from daydreaming to the scream of awakening. The work of the mind becomes visible through a patient engagement with its passivity, a languid exploration of the in-betweenness of drowsiness. The sound of this meandering is the performer’s whistling of melodic reminiscences: a whistled dance embodying a state of fluid becoming.