Projects
2019
Stanche Mani and Réparation
Réparation, Indian ink and oil painting on rice paper, hand sewn, 350 × 300 cm, 2019
Stanche Mani, video 2'38", 2019
Performance on 12-16 November 2019
Théâtre de la Vie, Brussels, Belgium
→ theatredelavie.be
Concept, choregraphy: Lisa Da Boit
Text, voice: Sophie de Beer
Interpretation: Lisa Da Boit, Sophie de Beer
Visual universe: Natalia Blanch
Live music: Sofiane Remadna
Lights: Yoris van den Houte
Direction assistant: Rudi Galindo
Promotion: Frank Barat, Anne Golaz
Co-production: Giolisu and Théâtre de la Vie
→ giolisu.com/...
Support: Théâtre Marni, Grand Studio, La Roseraie, Centre Garcia Lorca, Espace Magh
In Stanche Mani's work and research process, I specially used rice paper rolls and Indian ink to capture the energy and fluidity of the dance movements in drawings. These rolls of drawn paper were then used to dance, which damaged and tore them apart. I set out to repair the paper by stitching it up and creating an “unlimited” structure. On some of the pieces I embroidered extracts from poems. For example from the poem Separation:
“With mules, on foot
by airliners and lorries
in our hearts
we carry everything,
harvests, coffins, water,
oil, hydrogen, roads,
flowering lilac and
the earth thrown into the mass grave.”John Berger, Separation
from Pages of Wounds
Stanche Mani reflects the deep tensions that run through us as individuals and as a society, how to reconcile being in action and the need of silence; how to have various experiences of times, of the time that is unfolding and of the instant.
“Which kind of reflection can an artist bring on stage about the current social and political environment? Stanche Mani is a feminist piece about the artistic engagement. Lisa Da Boit dances on the ashes of her last solo Ferocia and finds herself ‘after the battle’, her hands tired from having supported, searched and held so strongly. [...] With Natalia Blanch, witness through her silent presence and her labor, Stanche Mani is intended as a poem that holds together the strident contradictions of reality and which allows us to glimpse the hypothesis of a distant light.” Excerpt from the website of Giolisu.
