Sophie Guisset
- Live performance
- 30 min
- Gare Saint Sauveur - lille3000
- +18
PLUS ONE
Plus One is a performance about intimacy for one viewer at a time. It offers the playful action of recreating a puzzle with the artist. The image that appears inside our eyes is the prerequisite for a conversation about conviviality, loneliness, isolation, affinity, confidentiality, among other topics.
This performance was thought of during lockdown. For Sophie Guisset, making puzzles was a central activity, a sort of mental escape during the period of isolation. It had therapeutic virtues, a way to focus her mind on a task at hand to get her thoughts in order. As the days go by and from her concentration she was able to find a missing piece just by a small detail. By sharing time with only one spectator at a time, she creates a intimate relationship with a stranger, until a subtly erotic tension emerges between the hands and the eyes, in search of an additional part.
Biography(s)
Sophie Guisset is a Belgian dance maker and performer, born in
Tournai and based in Berlin. After completing her education as an
actress at the Royal Conservatory of Mons (BE), she took part to the
Dance Intensive Program at Tanzfabrik Berlin in 2013. She has been
working with Olga Tsvetkova, Fanny Brouyaux, Consolate Sipérieus,Enis
Turan, Bérangère Jannelle, Natasza Gerlach and Phillip Urrutia. She is
currently working on two performances, Plus One and VTC.
Credits
Distribution :
Concept, performance: Sophie Guisset
Dramaturgie: Lisa Vereertbrugghen
Sound : Diana Dobrescu, aka as the triple identity transmedia artist Monica Kinolta, Dance Divine et Cyborg Amazone.
Puzzle image created in collaboration with Goodyn Green.
Credits and mentions :
With the support of BUDA Coutrai, Bâtard Festival, Workspace Brussels, Garage 29 Brussels
Tour dates:
- Bâtard Festival at Beursschouwburg January 2021.
