OURAGANE

Ouragane

solo choreographic research creation

Seeking to come together as everything collapses.
Inventing connections between the debris we find.

I began working with the Ông Dia mask in the midst of my Blossom labs,
which explore representations.
Its unique technical feature: it's made of cardboard and papier-mâché, and inside there's
a thin metal armature that you have to constantly hold between your teeth to
control the mask. I felt, because of the way it required working with it,
that it perfectly represented what I was going through at that time: a fragile shell, where,
to hold the external structure together, you have to clench your inner teeth. While
the mask's expression is a full smile. I see in this smile the projections of
others, of what's expected of me, of the roles I have to play to satisfy and tick
the boxes, in what I can represent in the collective imagination.

I would like Ouragane to be an ode to unpredictability, to storms that we feel coming,
to feverish winds that we stir up, to overflowing drops of water, to breathlessness,
to our stomachs that we brace ourselves against to avoid exploding.

credit photo : Fleur