MOTOR UNIT – SATI VEYRUNES

Motor Unit was born from a reversal of the usual paradigm. Contrary to conventional approaches, in which a choreographer initiates a project by bringing together a team around a concept, Sati Veyrunes chose to invite choreographers Erna Ómarsdóttir and Adrienn Hód. She asked each of them to transmit a solo drawn from pre-existing material from their original works. In this way, Motor Unit proposes to consider performance itself as the starting point of the project. This inversion of the process raises an intriguing question: what becomes of a work when the performer herself chooses the material?

Motor Unit unfolds in two parts, through which Sati Veyrunes successively reactivates these two solos. Moving from one choreographic writing to another involves a shift in the mode of interpretation: a single body becomes the site through which two distinct choreographic languages pass, as well as a space for transformation, continuity and persistence.

« A piece is never truly finished, much like music: it remains open. There is an extraordinary space there for interpretation. What fascinates me about our profession is that we carry both the dramaturgical and emotional dimensions of a work. The performer does not simply transmit forms; they become the living place where structure, memory and emotion meet. » Sati Veyrunes