„La palme de l’exploitation du format vidéo revient à Valerie Reding, qui a retravaillé sa dernière pièce m.a.d. pour en faire une performance exclusive en live stream, avec la complicité d'Aron Smith. L’artiste danse en direct, tout en étant filmée sous différents angles par un jeu de trois caméras. Sur l’écran s’impriment en superposition d’autres images pré-enregistrées et remixées. Différentes temporalités se juxtaposent ainsi, brouillant les repères. La silhouette se fond progressivement dans ce collage de plus en plus abstrait et psychédélique, tandis que résonnent les échos lancinants de la voix d’Ivy Monteiro. Les images sont somptueuses et l’effet envoûtant.“
Marie-Laure Rolland, La Glaneuse (LU)
m.a.d. - about you
2021-2022
20 minutes live video performance
followed by a short encounter and discussion with the artist
How can we be together in a world that divides us into arbitrary social categories? How can we truly encounter each other in an increasingly digitalized society? How can we overcome what separates us?
Based on their latest stage work m.a.d. co-produced by Tanzhaus Zürich, Valerie Reding created the live video performance m.a.d. - about you in co-production with TROIS C-L Centre de Création Chorégraphique Luxembourgeois (LU) and ZÜRICH TANZT festival (CH).
m.a.d. - about you is a "1 on 1" live video performance via ZOOM for 1 spectator at a time (or a small group of spectators). Visually stunning, this multilayered video performance is composed of video clips from Valerie Reding’s live performance captured by several different cameras, unseen footage from the stage work m.a.d., behind the scenes footage and computer-generated imagery (CGI) created by Aron Smith, mixing different temporalities and camera perspectives.
With music created by Ivy Monteiro and a collage of intimate text fragments exploring power dynamics in intimate relationships, m.a.d.- about you unveils new and distorted views of the body and its interactions, merging the real and the virtual into an intoxicating universe made of haunting voices, techno music, physical contact and organic shapes.
Playing with the liveness, fragility and unpredictability of the digital video composition, m.a.d. - about you is in no way a mere video streaming of a live performance, but it is an attempt to confront the audience in front of the screen with the physical and emotional intimacy of the performer.
The spectators are invited to immerse themselves into a dystopian and intimate world where desire, longing, loneliness, obsession, love, rage and cravings for the other merge into a shattered dream - or into a hopeful nightmare.
artistic direction, choreography, text, performance:
Valerie Reding
live video composition, CGI:
Aron Smith
music:
Ivy Monteiro
co-production and financial support:
TROIS C-L Centre de Création Chorégraphique Luxembourgeois
ZÜRICH TANZT festival
