“Presence on stage, you know, it’s the throat, the look and the openness, raise your head,” says Mylène Venturini to her student, Jeanne Borgel.
The 23-year-old young woman is warming up this Thursday at the end of January on the floor of the Micadanses room, near the Pont Marie, in Paris.
The dancer is preparing her twenty-minute solo entitled “So what?”
», which she presents this Sunday at the El Duende theater in Ivry-sur-Seine.
The young woman places herself on the ground, in a fetal position.
At the first notes, the body contracts and relaxes, sags, contracts again.
She gets up, falls down.
We will see her get up, become angry, wake up, take a series of tumbles... Flourish.
This choreography traces its history.
Jeanne is disabled.
Victim of an in utero stroke which left her right-sided hemiplegic and subject to persistent epilepsy.
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