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VOILÀ ! - Creation process
(with red carpet and vacuum cleaner)
"VOILÀ !" was developed over the course
of a year. The impetus for the project came in 2004 when
the Festival d’Avignon gave Olza carte blanche to
create a special evening for the "La vingt-cinquième
heure" series in the Salle Benoît XII. This
performance series supplemented the festival’s
programme with an opportunity for artists to try out
new and innovative
performance material. Olza’s performance piece was
entitled "Contact" and as its name suggests,
it was based on the concept of contact between performer
and
audience. This unique experience gave him a kick-start
for the whole project which was done in collaboration
with the
choreographer and actress Carlotta Sagna. Afterwards he
returned to Basel and began working alone in his studio,
trying out various crazy ideas to see where they would
lead. One experiment involved working with the ancient
concept
of paper folding - origami - but on a much larger scale!
During his investigations he found a way to fold a 16
kg
carpet so that it could balance on his back or on the sole
of his foot. The next phase in the piece’s development
was done in collaboration with the choreographer Zoltán
Dani working as an "oeil exterieur", and
gave rise to the project’ s name "VOILÀ!".
During a later rehearsal period in Brussels the project
received a new important impulse from the artist Robert
Suermondt. This led to a public performance in Spring
2005
as an open try-out at the Centre National de la Danse in
Pantin/Paris. Further try-outs took place in Lucerne
at
the Theater La Fourmi, at the Festival de la Cité
in Lausanne and in Neuchâtel at the Festival Scène-ouverte.
The final phase of the process resulted in a premiere
in
Basel, accompanied again by Jordy Haderek as an "oeil
extérieur".
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