© Eve Zheim
Ré-création du solo de 2005 de Maria-Donata D’Urso
Concept, choreography and performance: Maria Donata D’Urso
Lighting design: Maryse Gautier
Lighting design for the revival: Yannick Fouassier
Original music: Vincent Epplay
Set construction: Jérôme Dupraz
General stage management: Ludovic Rivière
Production: Disorienta
Coproduction : La Ménagerie de verre, Compagnie DCA/La Chaufferie, avec le soutien
de la DRAC Ile-de-France Ministère de la culture et de la communication
Production manager: Marco Villari — contact.marcovillari@gmail.com
Duration: 45 minutes
Premiere : october 21, 22, 23 2026 – Ménagerie de Verre
ARTISTIC STATEMENT
This solo, created in 2005, emerged from a subtle yet radical exploration of the skin as the source of movement, the interface between the body and the world, and the protective shell that connects us to others. In this piece, I address a question that recurs throughout my choreographic work: the invention of an architecture for the body. Drawing on in-depth research into somatic states, the body itself becomes both the architect and the architecture of the stage space.
The framework created for this piece allows me to study the body from its very foundations: by inverting the points of support and the dynamics of movement horizontally, I compose bodily states where gravity and suspension continually intersect. The dialogue between sensory narration and the “horizontal medium” of space constitutes the source of this solo’s choreography.
Reenacting and reactivating this stage framework today involves retracing the narrative thread of sensations within a different perceptual and temporal context. This reinterpretation could be likened to a rewriting, thereby opening up new interpretive perspectives.