Les Brigittines

A memory that lingers unnecessarily: the sensation of a hand pressed against one's own body, and the physical or psychological attempt to escape from an assault. How do you live again when the body has been bruised? How do you move forward when mourning a piece of yourself, forever affected and still raw? To what extent will the aggressor claim their place in the fractured future of their victim?

In Chair Vive, Elsa Tagawa delves into, and re-experiences, the mechanisms of post-traumatic stress. Through dance, she reconstructs a new being with an enlightened view of her own scars. The choreography is inspired by metamorphosis symbolising a transformation both internal and external, on a personal and political scale.

Mixing projected images with movement, Chair vive is an ode to life, which must endure, no matter the cost.