The French-Spanish artist, based in Switzerland, arrives in Valencia on May 15th and 16th with this work, starring alongside actress and dancer Arianna Camilli. The burlesque performance analyzes the mechanisms of domination embedded in micro-gestures and everyday language.
Both performers carry out a cathartic and joyful ritual through exclamations, interjections, and actions such as caressing, sniffing, sticking out the tongue, threatening to hit, rubbing, maintaining eye contact, and getting very close. The alphabet of the proposal, the first from the Carmen Chan Company, draws from the excessive masculinity of postures in a corporal and verbal discussion where comedy goes hand in hand with the grotesque.
“"We are interested in the visual impact of movement in space, as well as the sonic impact of a phrase or expression, with the aim of understanding how small gestures and micro-words are enough to dominate the bodies of others."
In this rhythmic and graphic duo, a corporal and sonic score is executed, reaching its climax with voices shouting in unison, increasingly intense lighting, and a brief ritornello that amplifies and entertains the audience to the point of disgust. Corporal and verbal dissociation have been fundamental in the creation process.
Ventriloquism is the appropriate way to talk about the consequences of confronting what they call "imbeciles" instead of representing them. The term Bell End, it should be clarified, is a vulgar insult in the United Kingdom and Ireland referring to the glans. To reinforce this collective issue, an obscene song, La Petite Huguette, is used in the piece.
