Catherine Gaudet : Hors-d'œuvre
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Hors-d’œuvre se construit autour du contraste entre rêve et cruauté du réel. Quelques pas esquissés, répétés, précisés, affinés… Comme un couteau qu’on affûte pour trancher, cette fois, le destin en sa faveur. Hors-d’œuvre est une chorégraphie fantôme qui hésite tant qu’elle disparaît presque. Hymne à la persistance et à la résistance, ou âme mâchée par l’ambition ? Le muscle est vif, mais l’œil est humide. Les murs se resserrent, mais le dehors est si vaste qu’on s’y perd. Chaque pas est une tentative, un souffle sur la braise de ce qui garde – encore un peu – vivant. Ce n’est plus une répétition : c’est une obsession. Quelque chose doit céder. Ou tout à la fois.
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Hors-d’œuvre is structured around the contrast between dreams and cruel reality. A few steps sketched, repeated, clarified, refined… Like a knife being sharpened to slice, fate in its favour. Hors-d’œuvre is a phantom choreography that hesitates so much it almost disappears. Is it an ode to persistence and resistance, or does it represent a soul consumed by ambition? The muscle is taut, but the eye is moist. The walls close in, but the outside is so vast that one gets lost in it. Each step is an attempt, a breath on the embers of what remains—still a little—alive. It is no longer a rehearsal: it is an obsession. Something must give way. Or everything will go at once.
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Hors-d’œuvre is structured around the contrast between dreams and cruel reality. A few steps sketched, repeated, clarified, refined… Like a knife being sharpened to slice, fate in its favour. Hors-d’œuvre is a phantom choreography that hesitates so much it almost disappears. Is it an ode to persistence and resistance, or does it represent a soul consumed by ambition? The muscle is taut, but the eye is moist. The walls close in, but the outside is so vast that one gets lost in it. Each step is an attempt, a breath on the embers of what remains—still a little—alive. It is no longer a rehearsal: it is an obsession. Something must give way. Or everything will go at once.
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