KRAFFF

Alliance Française de Delhi, Embassy of France in India and Institut Français

present

KRAFFF

An extraordinary show with a heady mix of puppet theatre and dance – a sheer visual delight!

Thursday, 4^th October 2012, 7pm

M. L. Bhartia Auditorium, Alliance Française de Delhi

72, Lodi Estate, New Delhi – 110003

Five performers appear on stage, with rolls of brown kraft paper. From the long strips of paper that they unfold, fold, crumple, twist and tie will emerge a human-like effigy, a paper figure, slightly taller than the four comedians who manipulate it in full view of the audience. The dancer and the puppet embark on an unusual pas de deux, which concretely tests on stage the question asked by Kleist in his famous philosophical short essay “On the Marionette Theatre”: which of the marionnettic body or the living human body is the most gracious? In Krafff, each turns out to have its own advantages and its own limits, examined and revealed according to the movement possibilities explored (weightlessness, gravity, suppleness, tonicity, rotation, torsion…). Here duet, there duel, this choreographic score actually involves a triple listening and writing of the body: that of the flesh and blood body, that of the paper dancer, and that of the four bodies dedicated to this unique body, giving shape and rhythmic impulse to its movements.

Every year, at the beginning of the season, we question our creations so as to reaffirm and clarify our perception through a particular piece of work. This fifth season will be marked by a new sensitivity in the relation between these two bodies by way of a deeper exploration of the singularity and strangeness of their encounter accompanied by an original musical composition performed by a string trio and percussions.

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