In partnership with the Swiss Arts Council, Pro Helvetia, in February 2021 we welcomed Swiss/French artists, Romane Peytavin and Pierre Piton (La PP), to dive into the realm of a virtual residency.
They researched their project Class, rethinking the concept of coaching, private dance classes, and home delivery both in the virtual and physical world.
Class is a home delivery performance class, sharing performative tools in order to rediscover everyday life surroundings and the sensorial approach to it. Using scores such as practicing the presence of objects, shining from the inside-out or rediscovering the shape of your sofa La PP want to invite a non-verbal exchange in order to empower co-students/audiences.
As performers they play the “ignorant Schoolmasters”, meaning that they don’t possess a specific knowledge that they wish to pass on but rather take on the audiences movement history in order to build up the class.
Class is about learning through a non-linear process how to perform, for the audience to find their own way of performing and moving within their home, it is about approaching creativity as an everyday life action.
Throughout their time La PP experimented with different communication tools such as Zoom, Instagram and podcasts to share their research.
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Choreographers and performers Romane Peytavin and Pierre Piton, founded La PP in 2018 and met at La Manufacture – High School of Performing Arts in Lausanne being part of the first dance Bachelor of Switzerland. In 2016, they created Capillotractée which was presented at the Quarts d’Heure de Sévelin in Lausanne and was a finalist of the Danse Élargie at the Théâtre de la Ville in Paris. For 2018/19 the company were associate artists at l’Abri, Geneva, in which time they developed the duet Dédicace; a one-to-one performance showed during the festival Antigel in February 2019. This led to the presentation of Farewell Body at l’Arsenic Lausanne in May 2019. Farewell Body was recently selected to be part of the Swiss Dance Days 2021, international platform for the promotion of the Swiss choreographic arts. La PP’s work revolves around improvised physical tasks in order to create ironic works that are accessible to all. It experiments through a hybrid body and offers constantly redefined practices where the public takes an essential part. Landscape header image by Gregory Batardon
