May B Mayguy Marin

May B sets a parade of a wandering human condition in motion with the invention of an abrupt theatrical language that transforms the ridiculous, the violent and the poignant into situations. The power of the dance lies in its ability to imagine the mystery of our presence in the world.

This piece, based on the writings of Samuel Beckett, whose work in its theatrical movement and atmosphere is at odds with the physical and aesthetic performance of a dancer, has enabled us to lay the foundation for a secret deciphering of our most intimate, hidden and ignored gestures. To succeed in making visible the small or spectacular gestures of the many inconspicuous and invisible lives in which waiting and a “not quite stationary” standstill create a void: an enormous nothingness, a silent space filled with hesitations. When Beckett's characters long for stillness, they cannot help but move; a little or a lot, they move. In this essentially theatrical work, it was less about developing words and language for us than about magnifying movement, and thus seeking the interface between, on the one hand, movement applied to theater, and on the other, dance and choreographic language.