Fabrice Mazliah, Ioannis Mandafounis
P.A.D.

A piece with which to test sight¡¦ Besides being current members of The Forsythe Company, Fabrice Mazliah and Ioannis Mandafounis have known each other since adolescence.

Drawing on this long-lasting complicity, they have created a most subtle choreographic study of the question of intimacy and the gaze of the other. Seated behind a railing on the four sides of the stage, the spectators look down on the performers, in an experiment on closeness that destabilizes, unsettles and distorts the perception of bodies caught in an ambiguous relationship.

What are we willing to give (or to show) of ourselves? And what is it we ask (to see) of the other? Where does one draw the line between individuals? Centering on the unstable distance and proximity between the dancers themselves, but also between them and the audience, this work invites us to question the gap between notions of perception, intention and interpretation.