Man

A voice comes to one in the dark. Imagine.
To one on his back in the dark. This he can tell by the pressure on his hind parts and by how the dark changes when he shuts his eyes and again when he opens them again. Only a small part of what is said can be verified.
Samuel Beckett, Company

We have to change our view to survive, just like we have to change our existence to stay alive.
It is no longer sufficient talking in negative terms about “zero expansion”, we have to exert ourselves positively to reinvent our perception of the world.
Paul Virilio, the horizon-negative: essay on dromoscopie.

DESCRIPTION
This part of II is inspired by the performance I/O SOLO of dancer/performer Jean-Luc Ducourt. Sound and image, in dialogue with body movement to stage Samuel Beckett’s text; the choreography is developed by the dancer himself. The smallest signs in sound, light, image are the company of this zero-character.

BASIC ASSUMPTION
Beckett’s ‘Company’ describes a man in a zero-situation. He is lying on his back in the dark and hears a voice. He asks himself questions in search for company. The voice alone is company but not enough. Sensory deprivation, an overall limiting of the man’s possibilities and inputs to his senses, make him extremely sensitive to even the smallest change of light, sound, movement etc, and for their interactions: Pangs of faint light and stirrings still.

In II , MAN is completely complementary to PATENT HUMAN ENERGY , two bodies, man and woman, in different conditions.