A THOUSAND

Incandescent and sharp, Harris Gkekas’s silhouette traces a path, whose ups and downs sketch out numerous mutations, where the image of a ‘skin’ doomed to burst like that of a reptile during its moult vibrates.
Around questions of resistance and transformation, the body unravels in surprising twists and turns, punctuated by sudden accelerations and controlled imbalances. The virtuosity of the movement, the shimmer of the space and the free flow of movement paint the portrait of a man in a thousand stages, a reference borrowed from Deleuze and Guattari to describe the production of differences and modulations. In this solo, metamorphosis operates as a motif, but also, like our world, as an imperative.

Design, performance: Harris Gkekas | Sound design: Didier Ambact | Set design, lighting: Gabriel Foussard | Production: Strates | Coproduction: Pôle Sud – Centre de Développement Chorégraphique National-Strasbourg, Les Subsistances Laboratoire International de création artistique – Lyon, KLAP Maison pour la danse – Marseille | With the support of: la Drac Auvergne Rhône-Alpes | Accompanied by: le Réseau Grand Luxe | Acknowledgements: CND in Lyon

UNE

UNE is a body on its own, surrounded and put to the test. UNE methodically analyses the constraints imposed on it by its environment and circumvents them by means of extreme twists. Each stage of this gruelling journey to finally standing on her own two feet reveals a strength that never fades. UNE‘s resilience and resistance go hand in hand with feelings of weariness and internal revolt, which are certainly legitimate.
The first part of the Framed.medeas series, UNE is a reminder of the fragility of our freedoms and our individual and collective struggles. More than an allegory of the female condition and its struggles, UNE is a call to vigilance, because the balance of all things can never be taken for granted, but is always the fruit of a constant and perilous exercise.

Concept (in close collaboration with the performer) : Harris Gkekas | Interpretation : Alex Blondeau | Vocals : Laetitia Hern | Sound engineer: Clément Tranchant | Lighting design: Jöelle Dangeard | Production: Strates | Acknowledgements: Studio UMA-DADR cie