Experiment on Chatting Bodies

For this production Fabien Prioville was inspired by the video chatroom ‘chatroulette.com’. On this site users present their – sometimes radical – ideas during completely random encounters.

In collaboration with Pascal Merighi, also former dancer of Tanztheater Wuppertal, Fabien Prioville investigates the fascination of these encounters. On facebook he invites people to come and join the performance via skype. He wants to create unforeseeable situations and experiments with their unpredictable outcomes.

Experiment on chatting bodies on Facebook

Time for Us

Time for Us concentrates on the experienced moment of two people meeting each other. It is a search for the significance of this moment, an exploration of places of community, the relation of the two dancers on the stage. How do we meet? Where do we come from with all our demands and needs? What connects us?

Fabien Prioville and Azusa Seyama are not only connected through their mutual work for Pina Bausch and Tanztheater Wuppertal, but also through their personal relationship. Thus, “Time for us” also focuses on investigating intimacy, a radical search for closeness, the wish of being together. It is also a confrontation with one´s own history – including the biographical answer as dancers. Both were hugely influenced in their work by the great choreographer Pina Bausch. In their latest piece they also grapple with her legacy. The performance plays with these points of relation and shows two individuals and their wish to leave behind their artistic legacy without dismissing it.

The Smartphone Project

In these days smartphones have turned out to be one of the most important technical devices available to the average consumer. They have become a tool for communication that can be used for much more than simply making phone calls. The development of the applications – so called apps – has got a deep impact on our daily life. The cell phone is also called the 7^th mass medium and it allows people to connect with each other whenever they want.
In this project Fabien Prioville wants to investigate the use of smartphones during a dance performance. Usually people need to turn off their phones once they enter the venue. Yet, in this piece Fabien lifts the ban and invites the audience to download an app from the Android or Apple store in order to communicate with the dancers during the show.