Club Sweat Cycle is an installation composed by club inspired volumes and sculptures.
The smoking area, the dance floor and the scene crystalized clubber’s bodies, and become their receptacles. The volumes smell, ooze, attract and touch each other. Like in a club, the installation collects individual fluids and unify them in a collective.
Club Sweat Cycle is activated by performance, co-written and produced by Hava Hudry, Gabriel Levy and Théo Pézeril. The trio draws in their individual practices of dancing, gogo dancing and drag, and individual night club’s experiences.
From this choreography, a romance without words take birth. Hava & Gabriel body’s contacts become a form a language. Their movements guide the soundscapes and transform the musical environment in a live performance.
The bodies link to the space, sweat, rub and caress each other until ecstasy.
This performance suspends time, time of a bond that could end at sunrise.
The meeting point starts in the smoking area, represented by a moving a padded wall. Capable to be opened or closed, like a book.
Each point that constrained the naturally dyed fabric create a constellation. From every linked point, two kissing spermatozoids are taking shape, defining this imaginary space as probably sexual but also soft and cozy with this wall impregnated by cigarettes ashes. The performer’s mouvements start disconnected. Slowly they meet through a cigarette, and through their saliva they begin a primer romance. Slow Contacts take place, from hands, to legs to buttocks. Each body becoming the support of the other.
This first conversation ends after rejection and grabbing movements. The bodies enter a new space. Much larger and non-defined, composed by the sculptures lying on the floor. Each one produced by hands contacts, polished with saliva and sweat. The wood and stones associate on the floor’s dust, and old dirty water marks, to become a bigger form. They kiss and compliments each other.
Hava and Gabriel adopt a new attitude. Like in a dance floor, in the two corners of the room they scrutinize. Adopting the same submissive positions, like an animal love parade, they show their sudden ability to move across the club’s lights and furniture.
This choreography ends on the main scene. Produced with old sculptures associated with a upcycled club’s reverted and elevated platform. Customed with jeans, dye, led, foam and new wooden architecture. This space become the receptacle on the night desires, allowing the bodies to finally meet in a space made for them.
The scene closes this body love language by incorporating Hyper Ballad (the original performance scene) into a perfect nesting in the platform. Letting it rest for eternity. Or probably when the sun sets again…
Credits :
Performers : Hava Hudry / Gabriel Levie / Peridurale
Live Performance : Peridurale (Théo Pézeril)
Vidéos : Nogan Camille Chevreau / Louise Sauvard
Photos : Thomas Sartirano / Théo Pézeril
Place : Césure Paris
Special thanks to : Élisabth Ballet, Sarah Tritz, Sacha Renard, Sofia Bonilla Otoya,
Pierre Yves Dougnac, Sophie Rezard de Wouves