Premieres of i: 25, 26 and 27 february at Château Rouge d’Annemasse

i is a 20-minute piece by Anne Anguyen in the trilogy La preuve par l’autre for six dancers and three choreographers produced by Malka dance company (Bouba Landrille Tchouda). The title of the piece i, is inspired by Kafka’s character “K”, and by image of a a human being in a standing position, head held upright, arms and legs not shown. For this production on the theme of otherness, Anne Nguyen worked around a simple imagery-laden concept: her six dancers, as if “planted” in different parts of the stage, confront themselves to the audience gaze. Performing to a soundtrack of 90s hardcore America rap music interspersed with hauntingly beautiful classical snippets, the dancers’ jerky, pulsating movements reflect the inner turmoil and battles of a generation trying to keep its head above water against all odds. i is not only a statement, a confrontation with the gaze of the uknown, it also challenges the way we contemplate the singular.