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ZERO VISIBILITY IN PARIS


The first premiere during Zero Visibility Corp´s small festival at Théâtre Sylvia Montfort in Paris was “It´s only a rehearsal”. With the two great dancers Line Tørmoen and Dimitri Jourde in Ina Christel Johannessens koreografi.

Dimitry Jourde and Line Tørmoen in "Its only a rehersal" with Zero Visibility Corp. at Théâtre Sylvia Monfort, Paris. Foto: Henning Høholt

The two dancers are in an elegant flying mowement presenting their feelings and the movement ideas of the choreographer Ina Christel Johannessen. Still that the titel is: ”It´s only a rehearsal” the two dancers has come very far in their rehearsal work. This extremely well trained couple are forming a body language for us, far away from the classical ballet language. Here we are close to an acrobatic dance world. In this we observe and enjoy the personality of the dancers, and are looking in to the world of the choreographers mowing world. Where one movement ends by starting up the following. In this comes the story telling, - or is there any history, “Is it only a rehearsal?”.

First part is a mowing part followed by a more personal sensuell part, which could have been the introduction to am sexshow every where else, if the dancers had not been wearing clothes.

After one hour the dansers are starting explaining teh history to the audience, and it is like we are passing ower from a dance performance to a theatre performance, and we get a bach carpet with a forest with a beautiful animal behind, this part is the amusing part.

“Dimitris Show”. Then we have passed to the circus cabaret talk show wolrd, at the beginning with out any choreography, where Dimitri virtuosely are entertaining slapstick for the audience, which loves it, and Line is looking out to the audience like thinking and saying, “Isn´t he creasy”? - The audience loves it. Well Dimitry is not only speaking, after a while he is continuing aking the one wonderful circus acrobatic trick after the other, brilliant.

So for a wellfilled up Theatre Sylvia Montfort followed the performance, and ejoyed this first perfromance out of four different performances , which shall be presented during this 12 days long festival. With the choreography by Ina Christel Johannessen in Paris. The sound background is giving the dancers motives, motions and moods to work with, and also giving space for sweet romantic parts.

Ina Christel Johannessen has the fortune that she is finding good charachters which suits her performance languag as in this performance Line Tørmoen and Dimitri Jourde.

When there is no story, often contemporary choreographers have the difficulity to make a stop, it is a pitty, The same happend in this performance, which could have been cut a bit. 10 minutes less would have been better.

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