WATERredSKY
Période de production : janvier – juin 2014
A piece by Nathalie Larquet and Liat Waysbort
In this performance, Nathalie Larquet and Liat Waysbort embark on an inner journey through time. Step by step, they uncover the architecture of their past lives — a path that has left traces within them, etched into their bodies, and which now seems to become a space in itself, open to foreign memories.
A futuristic city
…where sky and light endlessly reflect off the glass towers.
A diffuse, almost unsettling presence envelops the metropolis. Two women wander through it, adrift without purpose, their movements suspended, emptied of all urgency or need.
Strangers to themselves, they brush against the space around them, unknowingly sketching the outlines of an invisible architecture. Gradually, this ethereal framework becomes the vessel of a shared memory—one that flows through their bodies and binds them in a quiet intimacy made of sensuality, resonance, and breath.
In this interstice where everything remains possible, where every impulse opens a breach into the unknown, a question rises to the surface:
What becomes of our humanity in an age where algorithms silently weave the fabric of our lives?
MONADIC DUETT
WATERredSKY
by and with Nathalie Larquet and Liat Waysbort
at Theater im Ballsaal, Bonn
by Elisabeth Einecke-Klövekorn – Bonner Generalanzeiger
“Women among the Horses” was the title of a full-length dance production by French choreographer Nathalie Larquet, who lives in Cologne. In her award-winning short film Rehorsals, she explored movement sequences between men and horses. Now, personal memories and lived experience take centre stage in her latest performance WATERredSKY, co-created with Israeli choreographer Liat Waysbort, who is based primarily in the Netherlands. The premiere of this piece opened the Flow Dance festival’s Cologne-Bonn edition on June 18 at the Theater im Ballsaal.
Two women immerse themselves in the flow of their own biographies. A succession of fleeting moments glimmer like sparks of thought, illuminating the inner imprints time has left upon their bodies. Each of them lays claim to the space, opening it—and themselves—to foreign perceptions. Like monads, they act as living mirrors of their environment while simultaneously remaining self-reflective, attuned to the perception of their own sensations.
Two women, then—two lives in motion, shaped by the turbulence of the metropolis and a deep yearning for nature. Fragmented video sequences unfold in the background: monumental architecture with ghostly outlines, horses moving through a tranquil landscape. The imagery evokes expressionist cinema, where a female artistic figure emerges like a star conjured by digital spectacle—ice-blonde, bloodless, suspended in the nocturnal glow of today’s urban deserts.
With tenderness and cruelty alike, the two dancers engage in a shared choreographic play with identity and difference, with the tension between self-image and the instrumentalisation of the body. The black tape marking Larquet’s breasts reads as an erotic signal; for Waysbort, it becomes a stark refusal of feminine curves.
Larquet’s dance figures, seductively fluid, suddenly erupt into furious resistance. While Waysbort lounges on a plush white carpet—like a distant memory of childhood—Larquet crosses the stage whispering to invisible horses, wobbling comically on grotesque high heels in a scene laced with humour.
Every movement here carries a seed of doubt about its own truth, every position implies a negation. The two outstanding performers are in constant observation—of themselves and of each other—without ever physically touching. Through this shared experience, they also interrogate the very condition of being watched. What unfolds is an intimate duet in solo form: two strong individuals propelled by a shared current of energy.
After 45 minutes, the electrified tension—danced between the imagined dawn and dusk of two dance biographies—dissolves into a warm, wordless embrace.
FLOW DANCE 2014 présente, dans le cadre de son programme, des travaux congéniaux de chorégraphes dont le travail est centré sur la Rhénanie-du-Nord-Westphalie et leur alter ego artistique international.
CHORÉGRAPHIE & DANSE |
Nathalie Larquet & Liat Waysbort
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Nathalie Larquet
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