Carmen Villain

presents “Music From The Living Monument”

world premiere

“The Living Monument” is a dance performance by the Hungarian choreographer Eszter Salamon, composed of living tableaux in which the dancers move almost imperceptibly, as if suspended in a state of a motoric vigil, between the static and super-slow motion. Carmen Villain’s music for the piece uses this apparent immobility as a score, creating a fantastic ambience that evokes a world of slowness, in permanent tension, yet without any sign of rigidity or staticity. Viewed from a different perspective, this piece seems to be the perfect continuation of Villain’s gradual approximation to the ambiental genre in her recent works, which reveal a change of pace into more abstract, unseen and challenging territories. Over the last ten years, Carmen Villain’s path has been a prolific artistic journey, establishing a curious parallel to the long line running between Mexico and Norway in her blood.