Anyone who comes to the film hoping for an orderly historical overview of the dancer, choreographer and teacher Germaine Acogny will not get what they came for. The film moves freely between present and past, between her works and those of other choreographers, between archival materials, moments from her private life and the renowned school she founded with her partner Helmut Vogt, École des Sables (School of the Sands). And there is something fundamentally right about this mixing.Read more
Onstage, a single, small woman dances in her real, mesmerizing, temporary and transient body. Behind her appears an entire company of identical figures. The projection is delayed, creating a canon. Instead of a corps de ballet or an elaborate ensemble of dancers, the dancer appears through dozens of reproductions of herself. This mechanical accumulation fills the stage with movement.Read more