Video: "Melt" - melting performance by Noemie Lafrance
2024 Author: Richard Flannagan | [email protected]. Last modified: 2023-12-15 23:55
Between August 18 and September 12, 2010, New Yorkers have a unique opportunity to witness the performance "Melt" by Canadian choreographer Noémie Lafrance, according to which eight girls sit on the wall and seem to slowly melt under the rays of the scorching sun.
So, every day for half an hour, eight dancers sit on the wall and slowly melt away. Although in fact, of course, it is not they who melt, but their costumes made of wax and lanolin, it seems that not only the girls' clothes are melting in the sun, but also their bodies. “Their euphoria and exhaustion are getting stronger, they continue to melt until the souls leave their ephemeral bodies and dissolve in the rays of light,” Noemie Lafrance comments on his production.
“When I first got to New York, it was unbearably hot there. There was a feeling that the body was just starting to fall apart, and then I had the idea to use the body as a material. If solar activity increases, what will happen to us: will we melt, melt, or simply transform into another state? " - says Noemie Lafrance. According to the author, "Melt" is not just a performance, but also a meditation. The melting bodies of the dancers raise issues of heat, exhaustion, isolation and physical change.
The performance was first presented to the audience in 2003 at the Black and White gallery in Brooklyn. Later, the show could be seen in Montreal (Canada), Copenhagen (Denmark), Sao Paulo (Brazil) and again in New York, and the number of dancers gradually increased (from three to eight) and the duration of the performance (from 12 minutes up to half an hour).
Noemie Lafrance is a Canadian choreographer living and working in New York. She is the founder of Sens Production, a non-profit art organization that directs her performances. Noemie is the recipient of many art awards, and her projects are supported and funded by many public and private organizations, including the Rockefeller Foundation, New York State Council for the Arts, National Endowment for the Arts and others.
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