La Ribot will present her new creation, llámame mariachi, in Geneva on the 29th,30th and 31st of August 2009 during La Bâtie - Festival de Genève

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Direction, choreography and set La Ribot
Interpretation and cameras Marie-Caroline Hominal, La Ribot, Delphine Rosay
Video and stage light design Daniel Demont
Music atom™
Sound supervision and music Clive Jenkins
Video editing Sylvie Rodriguez
Light, video and sound technicians Stéphanie Rochat, David Scrufari
Video set construction Victor Roy
Photographies in video Miguel de Guzmán
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" In llámame mariachi, the moving body, the dancing body, is filmed by a camera that not only captures images, but that also conveys the experience of dancing. The camera‘s point of view provides an insider’s perspective on this experience and places it in other realities.

It is not an innocent, lifeless camera that might move by accident because attached to the body, it is a camera that watches, that breathes; it is a camera that is…

The camera is not a tool, an instrument, a fixed object, an invention. On the other hand, the body is used as an instrument and the camera becomes eye, brain, gaze, intention.

…The heaviest “responsibility” for the one who dances is to be in harmony with the space (floor, walls, chairs, other bodies…). Llámame mariachi speaks of this experience. The attempt to find harmony is precisely what the camera captures with its unforeseen events, its approximations, by conveying an experience of a physical and intellectual nature rather than formal and aesthetic…

Mambo brillante... Everything a lot slower! One has to invent the continuous movement of the camera. The body anticipates, like in dance, the movement and the action – and the camera cannot keep itself from looking, from thinking…"
La Ribot, notes, March 2009


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