“Stance II” is an expressionistic dance with its lone female figure moving eerily across a blackened landscape influenced by Italian filmmaker, poet, novelist and essayist Pier Paolo Pasolini and by Diverrès’ time spent with Kazuo Ohno, seminal practitioner of Butoh, “San (beyond)” is a homage to Oskar Schlemmer, influential set designer and teacher at German academies including the Bauhaus in early 20th century. Diverrès’ “San” offers a non literal visual narrative in the Schlemmer tradition. A series of scenes that are linked by imagery move one to the other, each complete in itself but linked in quality and purpose.

Self-awareness, relations with others, this is the essence of time – this has been Catherine Diverrès' philosophy ever since her first choreographic production.
San (beyond), a homage to Bauhaus master Oskar Schlemmer, is a moody, visually arresting marriage between design and motion. Surreal, angular and geometric, Diverrès’s sublime choreography for five characters conjures up the shapes and colours of Schlemmer’s pioneering work.
Stance II was influenced by Diverrès’ time spent with Kazuo Ohno, a seminal practitioner of the post-war Japanese dance form, Butoh, and echoes the beauty and grace of classical Chinese and Japanese paintings.

Stance II
Choreography: Catherine Diverrès
Dancer: Carole Gomes
Lighting: Marie-Christine Soma
Costume: Cidalia da Costa
Poem : Pier Paolo Pasolini: La Terra di Lavoro

Commissioned by :Biennale Nationale de danse du Val-de-Marne
Produced by: Centre Chorégraphique National de Rennes et de Bretagne, Théâtre Romain Rolland de Villejuif, Ville de Villejuif, Théâtre National de Bretagne / Rennes, Aide à la création du Conseil Général du Val-de-Marne

San (Beyond)
Choreography: Catherine Diverrès
Scenography: Laurent Peduzzi
Dancers:
Julien Fouché
Osman Kassen Khelili
Fabrice Lambert
Carole Gomes
Light: Marie-Christine Soma
Costumes: Cidalia da Costa
Sound and mixing: Denis Gambiez
A production of Culturgest - Lisbonne, Théâtre National de Bretagne, Centre Chorégraphique National de Rennes et de Bretagne
Sound engineer: Frederic Lahught
Stage manager: James Brandily
Lighting : Eric Corlay