Where am I when I'm two?

Sinopsis:

A physical and musical dialogue that puts on stage the day-to-day maelstrom brought by trying to balance the working life and the desire and realization of motherhood. With humor, passion and irony the quotidian world is multiplied to grab each of the vital seconds that make up a womanʼs existence since she becomes two. And the body, which knows so much about desires, contradictions, weight, time, tiredness, pleasure, ... has a lot to say.

The piece:

The way we tend to accommodate to the most frantic vital rhythms is fascinating. When we stop to look at them or if we put them on stage, which is the same, they seem most unlikely. Time becomes a friend and an enemy at the same time; it limits and gives space to those vital desires that move our legs.

And what happens when in that time one wishes to add up and not to subtract? To add a life to your life. To bring to life another being that depends on your own. To be two ... without giving up being one.

The balance between working life and motherhood is one of those rhythms which seem impossible, and perhaps the most surprising one, as we keep touching the heart of a specieʼs meaning: survival in reproduction.

This piece puts us upside down to show us what we suppose daily to be 'right '. Thought becomes action, and action moves the body in conflict, but also in humour, passion, esteem, irony ... On stage, a beautiful and fun dialogue articulated with what is most genuine but also most neglected in the daily maelstrom: the body.

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Towards poetry of the body

With this piece, I continue exploring the vast world of performance, theatre, mime and dance, adapting them and mixing them in order to achieve expressiveness.

Far from illustrating a story through gestures, far from an abstract language separating body and theatricality, I aim to develop with my work an art of movement as a theatrical portrait of the interior, of relationships, of hopes and conflicts, searching in the body of the performer - and her/his experience the inspiration for our shows.

" Where I am when I am two? " is a piece that includes, besides movement and text, live music. The relationship, the opposition and the connection between body, text and music and the relation between the performers are the main research ingredients to reach a poetic form of dance theatre, sometimes abstract, always evocative.

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The music positions itself in counterpoint to the movement score: a duo takes shape between live music and the music of movement, which tends to amplify contrasts and develop emotions. The musicality takes a crucial place in relation to the theatrical and choreographic score: the performer has to find her own music and express vital rhythms in movements and attitudes. The silence or the sounds also contribute to the construction of an expressive movement score.

I work from my own experience to create a physical language, to think in movement and move thoughts.

foto: Olivier Décriaud

Sophie Kasser

Physical theatre performer, creator, teacher trained in London, Paris and Geneva. Founder of the Moveo training centre and company in Barcelona, I'm interested in the expressivity of the body and devised creation.

A former member of the international company Théâtre de l'Ange Fou in London for several years, I have created shows, participated in projects and toured in Belgium, Corea, Chile, Croatia, Spain, France, Holland, Hungary, Israel, Italy, Lituania, Poland, Portugal, Puerto Rico, Romania, United Kingdom and Switzerland.

I have collaborated and created projects for institutions such as the Institut del Teatre de Barcelona, University of Barcelona - Centre for Research DUODA, Dies de Dansa / Barcelona GREC festival or NOVIA - University of Applied Sciences, Finland, or International Theatre Improvisation Festival of the Island of Réunion.

As a pedagogue, I am a regular teacher at the MOVEO centre, the ESAD of Barcelona, Circus School Rogelio RIvel and the Dance Conservatory of Barcelona. I have taught workshops in organizations such as the School of Speech and Drama in London, the Conservatoire Populaire of Geneva, the Superior Pedagogical School of Aarau (Switzerland), the Superior Dramatic Art School of Palma de Mallorca, the Mime festival of Sueca (Spain), the Internacional Mime and Physical Festival of Chile, among others.

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Trained in theatre, circus and dance, I have specialized in physical theatre at the International School of Corporeal Mime London where I also completed the graduate program specializing in Stage Direction and Theatre Pedagogy.

Foto: Cristina Farrarons

Credits:

Original Idea: Sophie Kasser

Creation and Interpretation: Sophie Kasser and Sara Almohalla

Composition music: Nathalie Cecilia and Sara Almohalla

Artistic assessment: Stéphane Lévy & Maria Castillo
Executive production: Estella Muñiz
Thank you: Alba Cayón, Adrià Viñas Puntí, Olivier Décriaud, Esterina Zarrillo, Simona Galbiati.

Production: Cía Moveo

Performance commissioned and co-produced by Duoda Investigation Centre – University of Barcelona. Premiered in May 2013 at the Archivo de la Corona de Barcelona. Also presented at the Mimesis festival of Paris, International Festival of Theatre Improvisation of the Island of Réunion, The Pedrera of Barcelona, the Poblenou Festival of Barcelona, the C.C. Urgell of Barcelona, the Sala Carme of Valencia, the Theatre of Matadepera, the M.I.M Festival of Montpellier and the Théâtre des Grottes of Geneva. The piece has been selected for the Women Playwrights International Conference 2015 in Cape Town.

Contact:

Sophie Kasser

+34 654 58 75 29

sophie.moveo@gmail.com

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Press:

"..true moments of grace that transport the audience to the outer space, out of time and, with little steps, remind us that we are here and now.” (Nathalie Brochard, lʼÉmilie, 2015)

"The word made body, music, disorder, rhythm, hope." (Ivette Roche, Duoda, 2013)