SOMNOLE

I love the idea that choreographic ideas come when you’re lying down when you’re falling asleep when you’re somnolent

I would love to do a somnolent solo inspired by these states of latency and explore hibernation and its end the undertow of daydreams and the scream of awakening

to explore the desire for passivity

and move around in sleep

in this solo I would like to make the work of the mind as visible as possible let it be that which emerges

I wonder why I had never done a solo choreography

when I was little I practiced whistling during every recess so as to imagine an entire whistled concert I whistled mainly classical music

first I imagine an entirely whistled solo made up of melodic reminiscences

and for once I also imagine lights a first draft emergency exits lighting up one after another a sort of drone flying overhead spotlights my movement and probably a potent beam from backstage backlighting that slants downward toward the audience because, in the end, everything moves in their direction

Notes of intent - Boris Charmatz, april 2020