Premiere June 16th-17th 2016 - Festival Latitudes Contemporaines (Théatre du Prato) – Lille, France. Another Distinguée – 5th series of Distinguished Pieces. Choregraphed and Directed: La Ribot. Performers: La Ribot, Juan Loriente, Thami Manekehla. Installation: La Ribot. Construction of installation : Marie Prédour, Victor Roy. Lights Design: Eric Wurtz. Technical director: Marie Prédour. Costumes: La Ribot. Production of costumes: Laurence Durieux, Marion Schmidt, Julie Z. Outside eye: Jaime Conde Salazar. Photos and captation: Anne Maniglier, Collectif des routes. Production: La Ribot - Genève. Production and communication: Sara Cenzual. Administration: Gonzague Bochud. Diffusion: Nicky Childs (Artsadmin, London). La Ribot is an Artsadmin associate artist. Diffusion for Spain: Paz Cecilia (Magale prod, Madrid). Diffusion of visual art: Angel Varela. Coproduction: Théâtre de Vidy, Lausanne CND, Paris, Latittudes contemporaines, Lille, Teatros del Canal, Madrid. With the collaboration of Comédie de Genève. With the participation of Centre Pompidou, Paris. With the support of Stanley Thomas Johnson Stiftung, Ernst Göhner Foundation La Ribot is supported by Ville de Genève, République et canton de Genève and Pro Helvetia - Swiss Arts Council. Titles of the Distinguished Pieces in order of appearance: Distinguished piece n°48, Sonia Distinguished piece n°51, Dark Practices Music: Refraction I, No inc. (Materiel Object and Atom™). Distinguished piece n°50, Super Romeo Music: Refraction I, No inc. (Materiel Object and Atom™). Distinguished piece n°46, Sirènes. Distinguished piece n°47, Sacrifice I. Distinguished piece n°53, Sacrifice II. Distinguished piece n°52, Desasosiego Music: Omega Point (Shuffle Remix), Sagittarius A. Distinguished piece n°49, Olivia Music: Anda y pincha me una vena, Alvaro de Cardenas feat. Fernando Palacios.
Show/ Dance/ Theater
It has been twenty three years since La Ribot first conceived of the Distinguished Pieces and the project continues to unfold, revealing new meaning with each transformation. The Distinguished Pieces are short performances or actions organized in a series, each serie is a show and they have been performed in different kinds of spaces: theaters, art galleries, museums. The latest series Another Distinguée adds a surprising new layer which changes the significance of all the previously pieces.
Another Distinguée is an invitation to oblivion and at the same time, paradoxically, an exercise in memory. Memory is capricious and cannot be regulated or controlled. Memory rewrite its stories anew and to do so it slips, repeats, embellishes, represses, etc.
In this sense Another Distinguée not only takes us somewhere new but, at the same time, it pushes us towards the unknown. The characteristic clarity of the previous series and pieces is now transformed into a dark dream like shadow play where La Ribot’s body, no longer a fetish for the gaze of the spectator, becomes a multiple presence that slips and transforms into other possible bodies. Heroine, Superheros, Warriors, Mermaid. La Ribot and her performers invent new identities in each piece only to shed it and transform in the next.
Another Distinguée invites the spectator to enter a very particular yet recognisable space: a «black cube». The characteristics of the space make for a direct and individual experience: each spectator has to take charge of their own presence and is free to decide where and how they are at any given moment. At the same time they must negotiate their physical relationship with other spectators with whom they share the space. In Another Distinguée there are more than shadows, a vast looming dark presence dominates, opaque and sinister, establishing a principle of invisibility that infinitely multiples the possible points of view. This vast presence profoundly limits any attempt to visually control what is occurring The only way forward is to accept this visual defeat and deliver oneself up to whatever each of our bodies is able to do and to make sense of.
Jaime Conde-Salazar