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« Comme des bêtes" is an immersive web documentary where anyone can enter the artistic world of dancers or "centaur actors". The Other is here an animal (cranes, swans or horses). It is in listening to this Other, so different, that the privileged experience presented to us is born, far from dressage.
For the spectator, it is an opportunity to attend fusion ballets where each artist, helped by a perfectly mastered technique, offers us a feeling of his very personal relationship created with swans or horses.
Knowing the Other, an adventure!
Project birth
Judith Sibony, creator of the web documentary and theater critic, got the idea for this project when she saw the show by Luc Petton (creator of the ballet Swan, choreographic pieces for swans and dancers and other creations such as La Confidence des Oiseaux or Migration d'été).
She testifies: "I was absolutely fascinated by the ability to listen, the ability to listen and the impregnation shown in this show. I thought there was something to explore in it. Everything that these relationships, these hand-to-hand encounters between animals and performers could say to us humans, about our capacity to listen to otherness beyond animality. »
The experience begins with a deep and primary immersion: we, the interactive spectator, initiate our view of the world as it is being born. We break our shell and the suffocated world we perceive shows itself to us. We are a baby crane from Manchuria...
The webdocumentary is structured around the five senses and, unlike a classic, linear documentary, it allows us to explore all sorts of intuitive, sensory aspects with our only desire as a filter. Very quickly we realize that there is no possibility of dialogue without total listening: no language, no social code can help us to understand.
By observing and listening to the dancers, we can grasp what are their feelings and their "understanding" within the framework of this so particular otherness. It is, for us too, a plunge into a totally unknown artistic universe, which can interest us intellectually, make us get out of ourselves and our habits and even, question us on our vision of the world and on our a priori or our prejudices.
Why watch "Like Beasts"?
It's an experience of about half an hour that allows us to share an artistic experience that we might not have gone to see, but also a little trip structured in 5 chapters that we can follow in a random way, a kind of initiatory journey where there are choices to be made, decisions to be made, tests, riddles and at the end of which we win a surprise that I'm not going to deflate but that looks like a portrait of ourselves...
Like the senses that take turns to refine our understanding, the digital viewer becomes a co-author. He will test questions and question himself through sensory games. He can also check the feelings of other spectators and question his own identical or different reactions.
In the end, for Judith Sibony, "it's an exploration of the Relationship. These hand-to-hand encounters between animals and performers can speak to us humans about our capacity to listen to otherness beyond animality. »
DISCOVER THE WEBDOCUMENTARY "COMME DES BÊTES" (LIKE ANIMALS)
