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

What we admire in the work of the French choreographer Mathilde Monnier is the lucidity and radicality with which she analyses the artistic and social worlds. She takes the time to ask questions and enter into encounters with the unknown, going beyond the simplistic exoticism of being different. Her points of departure in 'frère&soeur' are love relationships, desire and living together. This story, in itself always the same, is always told differently by introducing another result into each sequence. Each ending means a new beginning. The stage setting, as always conceived by the unbounded but quiet talent of Annie Tolleter, serves as a fictional place where change and discontinuity reign. When it comes to the music, Monnier has once again collaborated with erikm, whose sounds, expressive and packed with imagery, bring rhythm to the performance. 'frère&soeur' opens on the Cour d'Honneur at the 2005 Avignon Festival, coproduced by deSingel and at the invitation of the curator Jan Fabre.