La compagnie Respire
Created in December 2020, the Respire company is legally supported by the De Chair association, law 1901.
Its name comes from "re-spire" meaning "to put the breath of life back in a spiral" .
At the origin of several choreographic projects, Pauline Robin decided to create her company in 2020.
The creation of a dance duet with Caroline Roche, in collaboration with the musician Edoardo Tomada and the
costume designer Olivia Pradel, entitled La Chair, le Marbre, born in May 2019, constitutes the company's first show.
Driven by their research into space and breath, the company's artists take a new look at movement.
They want to ensure that spectators and performers are connected in the present of the show,
in a symbiosis comparable to that of the state of the body in meditation.
Dance to go beyond words,
Expressing the unspeakable through bodies, energy and movement
Let the thoughts and emotions that run through them surface
To manage to leave images.
Choreographic work
"My choreographic work is interested in the fragilities and vulnerabilities of human beings. For me, it is important to sublimate what is authentic through the forms of the body that are both physical and sensitive. This approach is fundamentally human and places the dancer's personality at the center of the project. It is also a research on the subjective experience of the dancer in the present moment.
Certain themes recur in my work:
- The Woman, feminine energy (receptivity in particular) and the balance between masculine and feminine (between passivity and activity in the movement itself),
- take refuge, how to inhabit and incarnate oneself,
- the purity and organicity of the human body and nature,
- authentic relationships between performers and spaces,
- the layers of the psychic being and its unconscious,
- the breath and breathing techniques specific to Yoga.
Painters and sculptors like Gustav Klimt and Auguste Rodin nourish my work as well as Medardo Rosso with his work on form & light. Nature is also a great source of inspiration, whether with the minimalism of plants and living beings or the sacred geometry of wide open spaces.
I like to work with a wide variety of spaces, environments and structures that I consider as fundamental partners. It is a question of establishing an authentic listening relationship with them. In this listening, there are the questions: where do I really want to be? Where does this space, this structure take me? And how can we find an agreement between these two things, the desire and the direction led by the structure?
The essence of being moves me as well as what remains after removing the layers of onions and cleaning the traumas… Like a calm breath of ocean. My gaze as a choreographic artist naturally observes what carries us and propels us to be alive on a daily basis, what sets us in motion.
Pauline Robin
Research on breathing techniques
1/ The Chair, The Marble
15-minute choreographic piece - Premiere May 2019 at the Royal Cabanon
Caroline Roche Choreographer - Performer
Pauline Robin Choreographer - Performer
Edoardo Tomada Composer - Musician
Partner residences
Studio Alain Astie Lyon – The Place London - The Sandbox of the Ineffable Theatre
In this show, the audience and the performers are connected, in the present, in a symbiosis close to that which one can experience in a state of meditation. Maurice Béjart said: “For me, entering into movement is entering into meditation.” Among them, images of Rodin. The title refers to the sculpture exhibition held at the Rodin Museum in Paris in 2013. The piece is inspired by the marble bodies imagined by the artist. The two dancers retrace their movements and poses, reanimating the sculptures, questioning what takes shape and what comes to life. The authenticity of the relationships between the performers and the uniqueness of their bodies is fundamental and at the heart of the research, creating a complete figure that sometimes dismantles and sometimes finds itself again. The work on the costumes and the musical creation are in constant dialogue with the choreographic research, constituting the two other pillars of the piece.
"It could evoke these Afghan women who, deprived of freedom, have fun among themselves away from male gaze, or even refugees who, to survive, invent games in a dehumanized context." Marine Fischer, spectator
"Come and merge with three figures in an intimate and sacred time, connected to the breath and the present. Enter a time suspended between travel and dream..."
Video extracts
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Teaser 2019
2/ Unusual Daily Life
Interpreters
Hila Cohen, Tom Found, Greta Gauhe, Mary Callaghan, Romain Fortier, Raphael Zweifel, Charline Dupanloup, Ioana Cristina Casapu, Luna Maestro Luengo, Stephanie Langdon, Dora Sztautics, Amouk Severin, Leandro Vittozzi, Sami Hokkanen, Brittany deal, Tal Navet, Tangyi & Liviu. With thanks to all participants.
Singer: Jade Rowswell
Concept & editing: Pauline Robin
"Unusual daily Life" is a dance film made in April 2020 during the lockdown and the covid-19 pandemic. Eighteen participants from different countries filmed themselves and captured fragments of life at a given moment. The authenticity of their lives, their experience, all the surrealism, the unusual and the usual dancing together. It is also a certain reality from different angles and some solutions to the feeling of isolation from the first lockdown in March 2020. Apart from global productivity, a vision of time that flies away...
About the process
"This film shows different individual characteristics, the beauty of simplicity and the possible interconnection of humans through the screen. For these participants, life and situations are very different. I asked them to share a little bit of themselves with specific tasks given, by filming with their smartphones their life and the people they live with, in their own home. I received films of about an hour and a half in order to make a short film of 7 minutes maximum. " Pauline Robin
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3/ Transformation
A short film directed by Pauline Robin.
Camera: Juliette Larochette
Dancer: Pauline Robin
Sound and music: Edoardo Tomada
Assistants: Rosalie Parent & Laurene Robin
"Transformance is a transformation show practiced in Japanese Butoh dance. This film could be a reflection, a contemplation on the subjective nature of creating one's own shelter and the way of inhabiting oneself. The way of veiling oneself, of protecting oneself as much as of being in relation between the internal and external living world. It is part of a research, a choreographic contact on the way in which an object and living beings correlate and tame each other. Is a piece of plastic less alive than a tree by the sea? It reflects my way of feeling free, blown by my life impulses and the luminous energy that inhabits me and is reflected on the layers of my skin. An interiority in constant change."
Pauline Robin
Teaser
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4/ Research
Body Landscapes – Sensitive Bodies
Corps en paysages is intended to be another way of being connected, a visual poetry, a geometric and sacred symbiosis between the dancers' bodies and the Italian landscapes. This project focuses on the natural and organic world, the heart of the earth in parallel with the human heart. This research focused on sacred geometry, the golden ratio, the spirals found in nature, the horizon and lines. The notion of "land art body" was defined, dancers becoming body to body with nature, in symbiosis, sometimes appearing and disappearing from the image. This work takes its inspiration (among others) from the sculptor Rodin, the choreographers Anna Halprin and Luna Cenere and the director Willi Dorner.
Video links
The meeting of air, plastic and flesh
Body landscapes 1.1
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