AUTOPORTRAIT RASKOLNIKOV
(Self-portrait Raskolnikov)
Solo Didier Théron

This piece is inspired by André Markowicz’s new translation, published by „Actes Sud“ of Fyodor Dostoevsky’s novel „Crime and Punishment“ which focuses on the characters’ action and movement, not their psychology. This translation proposes a living text with new images and rhythms. Two essential motives are revealed here: the motive of oppression, of destruction and burden, and that of the step, the path, the passage, which make of this novel an eminently choreographic work. It is a „pre-text“ for particular research on movement and on the body in a scenic space; a work dealing with madness, with a very specific vocabulary experimenting with tensions, with impulses, with extreme situations of instability, with ruptures in energy and space.

Concept / interpretation : Didier THERON
Music : Daniel MENCHE „Legion of walls“, Johann Sebastian BACH „St. Matthew Passion“
Light design : Alain PARADIS
Sound engineer : Yves BASTIDE
Costume : Didier Théron
Duration : 20 minutes
This solo can be programmed with the piece EN FORME, a quartet of 40 minutes.

“André Markowicz has profoundly renewed our relationship to Russian literature by bringing it closer to us in its obscurity, its profound movements and with its open intuition of the French language, a syntactic shock which demanded of him the work of a poet, of a writer, much more than the classical idea of a translator.” In www.remue.net

In www.remue.net