This solo is based on Cécile’s Master’s thesis in Organizational Theory, investigating how ideas, in a creative process in contemporary dance, emerge, develop, and blend into a piece. What is negotiated and who decides? Looking at dance through an ethnographic lens in order to better understand its organization, Cécile created a model conceptualizing her observations. In this solo, she tries to understand, with a dose of absurdity, what it means to react physically, somatically to academic methodologies. How can a dramaturgy embody the conventional shapes of academic writing but not its content?

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An organizational study, that’s my work was awarded the Goethe Institut Young Talent Prize in 2015.

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CHOREOGRAPHY, PERFORMANCE Cécile Bally

OUTSIDE-EYE Angela Schubot, Asaf Aharonson, Alexandre Viard

Funded by Sophiensale Tanztage 2015 and Goethe Institut Nachwuchsförderung

With support of HZT Berlin

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                    “If you understand what I say you will realize that I am not saying so much, if you don’t, you might guess that I try to say a lot. From the inside, I just try to follow an idea until the end and it is already a good challenge considering that I am looking at the stage from above in order to be sure to end at the front right corner".

—Cécile Bally

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