GRAVITE is both an installation and a choreography for a performer on a body of water.
Light and sound constantly pass through them, revealing the minute movements that unite them.
The device constructs a moving image, without video projection.
Light reflects off the water, projecting the image of the body floating on the surface onto a screen in the background.
The images build up on the screen, then disappear as quickly as they came, ephemeral. They guide our imagination through this dreamlike, abstract experience, where one evocation follows another: a bull, a foetus, a man in weightlessness...
The construction of the dancer's supports reveals the material of water, whose movement translates the body's perpetual adjustments to gravity.
Premiered in 2007, performed over a hundred times in France and abroad, at the 2008 Lyon Biennial.
“Fabrice Lambert's GRAVITE is a disconcerting hypnosis session. In front of a large white screen, a man lies on a black tray covered with a thin layer of water. Thanks to a single light projector, his slow movements are reflected in incredible detail on the canvas. The body disappears as if dissolved in the bubbles. His shadowy silhouette resembles a drowning man floating on the surface of the water, observed from below. A singularly successful virtual dive."
Rosita Boisseau - Le Monde - February 28, 2008
Conception, installation and interpretation Fabrice Lambert
installation and light Guillaume Cousin
Production L’Expérience Harmaat
Coproduction Le Manège, Scène Nationale de la Roche sur Yon ; Le Manège, Scène Nationale de Reims ; Festival Uzès Danse
Photos Alain Julien