Mathilde Monnier - Centre Chorégraph. Nat. de Montpellier Languedoc-Roussillon

Mathilde Monnier has been exploring the dancer's body in relationship to (social) space in the important centre of dance, in Montpellier. She chose the fragmentary text 'Lenz' (1835) by Georg Büchner as a source of inspiration for 'Déroutes'. The central figure, the poet Lenz is a compulsive walker, incapable of staying still: he walks in the snow, shunning the world and its machinations, numbed by fatigue. The underlying thoughts, which Lenz reveals during his wandering, remind us of an actual contemporary problem: the crossing of boundaries and the difficulties, which you encounter as an immigrant or refugee. In Mathilde Monnier's 'Déroutes' spaces merge, and sounds melt into each other. Each of the thirteen dancers pursues their individual route, a course in circles - walking does not by definition mean to have a destiny. Walking here signifies having 'no place to go'. It means: thinking in movements, expressing your relationship to the world, while moving towards the ultimate point of no return.