What we found in the Solitude

Némo Flouret and Synne Elve Enoksen is a performance duo working in the intersection between dance and theater. Their latest collaboration What we found in the Solitude stands in dialogue with the theater work «In the solitude of the cotton fields», written by Bernard-Marie Koltès.

Koltès ́s play is about desire and its discontents. It takes the form of a dialog between The Dealer and The Client as they meet one late evening, somewhere and somehow, in the name of The Deal. The play reveals the fluidity between power and violence in the name of diplomacy.

What we found in the Solitude is an investigation of negotiation and manipulation through dance, where notions of desire and resistance become tactile. As the work is performed outside, without seats, it invites the audience to interfere with anew stage and the sculpting of the space of the performance. The performance takes place at dusk/night. 

«If you are out walking at this hour and in this place, you must want something, and that something I ́m sure I may help you with; because I was here on this spot long before you came by, and will be here long after you ́ve gone, not even the savage grapplings of man and beast that occur at this hour scare me away, and that ́s because I ́ve got what those who pass by here want, which is like carrying a weight yo have to unload on whoever does pass, be they man or beast.» 

«In the Solitude of the Cotton Fields», Bernard-Marie Koltès 

Duration: 50 min

Dance/Performance/Theater