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Corps de Co. is a play on the original Corps de Ballet, in which a large group of dancers are cast into nominal dance roles, yet in unison, create a vital portion of the dance staging theatrics and plot advancement. As Corps members, these dancers serve as witnesses to the actions and outcomes. Les Corps is less essential, less exceptional, more monotone, more conforming, yet the fully functioning ballet rest atop of these dancers. Systems like Les Corps are represented in multiple aspects of society and the nature world. Within this premiere, we will explore both the systems that require multiple efforts, multiple people and the individual stories within them.
We explore the question: “what makes a group function?” and how do these concepts play out in the individual and the group? What actions cause ease or stress within the functionality? How does individuality play out in positive and negative ways within the overall common goal? Where do these goals come from? Does health play a part? This dance will pull back the curtain on itself to expose the layers of content that is worked and reworked throughout the process. Drawing from experience within a nation full of personal, couples and even corporate therapy, Corps de Co. is a dance made within and in spite of our current political and socio-economic regimen.
As a method of both capturing/focusing on detail as well as expanding the space, the video performance portion of the dance is made to portray the massive contributions of others into the system of the whole. The video Corps is as much choreographed spatially as the physical dancers on the stage. The Video Corps moves in and out of frame (staging) to expand the obviousness of the contributions to the work, beyond the stage itself. All of the versions that come before the final version that the physical dancers display on stage will be present in the video, hence creating a living memory within the presentation. By revealing multiple versions and layers we dispel the “magic” and elevate the honest hard-working individuals who bring vision to life.
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