HIGH GEAR(2025)

                                                                                                                                                                          

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HIGH GEAR

High Gear is a solo piece that explores a corporeal collection of figures drawn from parasitized intimate memories, intertwined with imagery from alternative manga. Through this excavation, I question the relentless cycle of production, consumption, and reincarnation. Rather than reproducing these patterns, a figure seeks to subvert their mechanisms, disrupt their repetition, and break free from their hold.

Drawing inspiration from the structure of yonkoma manga, a type of four-panel comic often used in political journalism, this solo delves into four fundamental themes: 1起) birth, 2承) eating, 3轉) working, and 4結) death. It unfolds within a closed circuit where representations are continuously absorbed, (de)constructed, and (re)formed. In this process, meanings accumulate, collide, and blur the boundaries between subject, object, and abject.

In the interstices of this amalgamation of noise and gazes, a fragmented, ghostly body struggles to find its way. It bears witness to the uncanny that takes root in the familiar and to the growing distance that, despite physical proximity, spreads across space.
High Gear thus becomes an excluded space, where the body exposes and decomposes itself in the pursuit of an elusive exterior.

Creation, choreography, interpretation   Kidows Kim
Artistic collaboration, photography and dramaturgy  Hubert Crabière
Artistic collaboration, textile and costume design  Josiane Martinho
Artistic collaboration, metal sculpture design Célia Boulesteix
Artistic collaboration, sound design Samir Kennedy
Artistic collaboration, lighting design, stage management Marie Sol Kim
Artistic collaboration, text reflection Lucille Belland
Artistic collaboration, exterior eyes Kazuki Fujita

Executive Production  MÉTÉORES
Administration, Production  Charlotte Giteau
Tour management Raphaël Bas

Coporudction 
La Ménagerie de verre ; CCN Ballet national de Marseille, direction (LA) HORDE ; ICI-CCN Montpellier Occitanie - Direction Christian Rizzo ; La Place de la danse CDCN Toulouse Occitanie
Residency
La Bellone, Bruxelles ; Kunstencentrum Buda ; CN D Centre national de la danse ; The Saison Foundation, Japon : invitation en tant que « Visiting fellow » en 2023, avec le soutien de : The Agency for Cultural Affairs, Government of Japan, in Fiscal Year 2023 ; Workspacebrussels





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Photo  ©Hubert Crabières