A couple of hours before their performances (Recoil at 8pm, Cagoule at 9pm, tonight May 27 at Palladium), the artists answered to Pierre-Antoine Possa’s questions (Fréquence Banane) and accepted to do some photos with our photographer AnneCé. Stress is coming but all of them keep smiling. Recoil Performance Group and Cagoule, both mixing dance to videos or visuals, are two of our biggest highlights of Mapping Festival 2011. We wish them lots of joy tonight.

INTERVIEW: RECOIL PERFORMANCE GROUP

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Recoil Performance Group in front of the Palladium, short before their rehearsal.

INTERVIEW: CAGOULE

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One of Cagoule’s dancers, during their rehearsal.

A short overview of what you can expect to see in the next couple of days @ Mapping Festival 2011:

PALLADIUM, FRIDAY 27TH

Recoil Performance Group and Cagoule’s performances are inverted. Friday 27th, at Palladium, Recoil Performance Group will perform at 8pm, while Cagoule will be at 9pm. Don’t miss these impressive acts, both mixing dance and video/visuals.

Quick reminder:

Recoil Performance Group (DK) is an association between a choreographer, a componist and two video-designers. BODY NAVIGATION is an A/V dance performance with a reactive floorprojection.

Two dancers and their digital reproduction are the scenographic frame of this humorous and emotional portrait of human relations. Based on rules and structured in a game like manner, the installation makes way for a playful dialog between the man, woman and the digital footprints they leave behind.

Cagoule’s INHABITANTS (UK) is a unique fusion of live contemporary dance performance, sound and film – a theatrical experience to indulge the senses. It is both thrilling and disturbing, with moments of elegance and beauty within Abby Warrilow’s choreography.

Dancers become feral creatures, abandoned and isolated in a haunted dilapidated dwelling. Over time they become part of nature itself, reclaiming civilized human structures for themselves. Perhaps these beings were once human, an unsettling example of what happens if we are left isolated, alone in the wild for too long…

FRIDAY 27th, 8pm, Palladium

CENC will present an audiovisual performance mixing generative video and dance at BAC (May 26). Because our locals compete very well with the internationals.

What is the Mapping Festival for you?

CENC:  Mapping festival is THE festival for visual arts, but it’s also a place to meet people and artists and a place to exchange.

In a few words, what are you going to present here?

CENC: We want to show the introspective journey of a lambda person, through movement and video.

Any highlights/crush in our 2011 program?

CENC: Recoil Performance (May 27 @ Palladium)! For us, they are pioneers in dance/performing. They are one of our biggest influence and we’re very proud to perform at the same festival.

Audiovisual installations curated by Mapping Festival
19th-29th of May 2011
Bâtiment d’Art Contemporain, Geneva

- Camille Scherrer, “Affût”
- Manuel Chantre, “Memorison”
- Kit Webster, “Enigmatica III”
- Boris Petrovsky, “The Wishfull Matrix”
- The Montesinos Foundation & Peter Viasselfebb, “Youtribe”
- FAIL, “Wood as Bones, Light as Flesh”
- Legoman, Mandril & Thomas Vaquié, “Cityscape 2095″
- Head Genève, “City Media Project”

Camera: Vania Jaikin Miyazaki, Jérome Monnot, Camille Dedieu, Linda Cavaliero
Editing: Jérome Monnot & Linda Cavaliero
Titles: Linda Cavaliero