César Vayssié – Dancing Twice (Studio Residency 2021)
A multidisciplinary artist, César Vayssié explores the relationship between art and politics, approaching dance as a form of bodily engagement.
How can the body carry contradictions? Between the desire to dance and morality, the impulse of rhythm and reason, the unbearable and pleasure, César Vayssié imagines — forty years after the release of Billie Jean by Michael Jackson — a choreography that echoes the questions and contradictions of the contemporary world.
Dancing Twice revolves around a duo performed by Jeremy Nedd and Marlène Saldana, both tormented and ecstatic, reflecting the duality embodied in Billie Jean. César Vayssié seeks to develop an unconventional dance, empirically hybridizing club dance and choreographic abstraction, interiority and release.
In search of a polymorphous dance unfolding over an extended introduction of Billie Jean, Dancing Twice expresses this desire, within dance, to become other — a particular state that transforms identity through the body and propels the self beyond itself, from the intimate to the collective.
