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Internal dramaturgy videos

The “internal dramaturgy”, by virtue of its subjective essence, allows us to detach ourselves from a biomechanical description or an oculocentric observation of movement to focus on the subjective fabrication of the dancer's experience. Movement arises not only from physical impulses, but also from internal dramaturgies.

Internal dramaturgies can be motivated by, and composed of, many factors including the symbolic, the imaginary, memories, textures, functional responses and listening to one's own body and that of others.

Stéphanie Pons shared her internal dramaturgy, a memory of the choreographer's instructions and a personal memory of those who danced with her, through an oral and danced reenactment of a choreographic fragment of Angelin Prejlocaj’s Paysage après la bataille, that she divided into 17 “titled” sequences and illustrated with drawings by artist Lisa Moore offering another representation of the movement.

"There are remains: in the body, in the sensations, in the feelings, that we went looking for. I've danced it 250 times, with other people. It's about staying in the body and the musicality too."
— Stéphanie Pons