BULKY
(Alexandre Bavard)
Animated by the ephemeral force of the body in motion, “Bulky – Study of the body in space” is a choreographic system blurring the distinction between visual and performance arts. In doing so, BULKY constitutes the essence engendered by the calligraphy of the street tag and directly sublimates the primal visual source of the style-writing into the field of post-modern dance, preserving the strength of its energy and its beauty.
The System maps a grid connected to the body, where each point is then separately assigned to a tag, allowing to freely interpret “the writing of the gesture”. The visual score created by Alexandre Bavard is influenced by the Georgian alphabet, the Parisian Art Nouveau architecture and the street calligraphy of MOSA87, with a special attention to its elongation and symmetry.
Gestures are transformed into indiscernible and disconnected movements. Forms cannot be determined anymore: the undesignated body of the dancer is losing its human appearance, leaving no traces of identity nor gender. Drowning in a vortex of frenzy, the movements, though aberrant, appear as the natural continuation of gestures through the bodies of the dancers. Their bodies, in fact, are all interconnected in a mutual collision forming a Great Breath.
Alexander Bavard manages to grasp the power of modern urban folklore, liberating the movement, which is becoming the key to exceed the reductive power of the language, that connecting link between spirit and matter.
BULKY is the shadow of the gesture, the Latent force that springs to life by magic identification with it.
An opening act for SATURNALIA FESTIVAL
Macao, Milano / 20.06.2019
Produced with the support of queer transfeminist performance collective FIKAFUTURA.
ALEXANDRE BAVARD is a French multidisciplinary artist, visionare and explorer. Working in the space between probable and improbable, his pieces are bred by the era of anxiety we live in. Dealing with the notion of ritual between mystery and strangeness his body of work touches crucial questions regarding the future of humankind.
Words: VITALY WEBER & GIUSI MILITE
Photography: SASHA STAVNICHUK
Production: VITALY WEBER
BULKY
(Alexandre Bavard)
Animated by the ephemeral force of the body in motion, “Bulky – Study of the body in space” is a choreographic system blurring the distinction between visual and performance arts. In doing so, BULKY constitutes the essence engendered by the calligraphy of the street tag and directly sublimates the primal visual source of the style-writing into the field of post-modern dance, preserving the strength of its energy and its beauty.
The System maps a grid connected to the body, where each point is then separately assigned to a tag, allowing to freely interpret “the writing of the gesture”. The visual score created by Alexandre Bavard is influenced by the Georgian alphabet, the Parisian Art Nouveau architecture and the street calligraphy of MOSA87, with a special attention to its elongation and symmetry.
Gestures are transformed into indiscernible and disconnected movements. Forms cannot be determined anymore: the undesignated body of the dancer is losing its human appearance, leaving no traces of identity nor gender. Drowning in a vortex of frenzy, the movements, though aberrant, appear as the natural continuation of gestures through the bodies of the dancers. Their bodies, in fact, are all interconnected in a mutual collision forming a Great Breath.
Alexander Bavard manages to grasp the power of modern urban folklore, liberating the movement, which is becoming the key to exceed the reductive power of the language, that connecting link between spirit and matter.
BULKY is the shadow of the gesture, the Latent force that springs to life by magic identification with it.
An opening act for SATURNALIA FESTIVAL
Macao, Milano / 20.06.2019
Produced with the support of queer transfeminist performance collective FIKAFUTURA.
ALEXANDRE BAVARD is a French multidisciplinary artist, visionare and explorer. Working in the space between probable and improbable, his pieces are bred by the era of anxiety we live in. Dealing with the notion of ritual between mystery and strangeness his body of work touches crucial questions regarding the future of humankind.
Words: VITALY WEBER & GIUSI MILITE
Photography: SASHA STAVNICHUK
Production: VITALY WEBER