Participation into this installation and performance unfortunetly cancelled because of a too warm Weather.

the performance happened, but without my part.

I was part of the project of The Dance of Fire and Ice, happening in Savitaipale (Finland), on March 2001. My project was to include an installation with 20 Frozen clothes as frozen dancers.

This was a collectiv performance, organized by the association Tulen ja jään Veljeskunta, including the installation of a wall of ice and a wall of fire realised by the French Ceramist Jacques Kaufmann, the choregraphy made by Liisa Yla-Outinen, the dance performed by the local young dancer, musicians and my installation of at least 20 frozen dancers that i was planing to realise. Unfortunetly, the weather condition made my installation being cancelled because every thing i made, melt few days before the show. not enough cold.

The project was to realise around 20 frozen dancers with the frozen clothes and add them to the installation of Jacques Kaufmann, and into the choregraphy. The idea was to made those frozen clothes as it could be an obstacle for the dancer, an object, a fix movement, a statue, a ghost, and also that the dancer were able to dance with them as a partner, as a double, as a twin. They could wear it as a skin, try to wear it as you try to wear a personnality, and see if they fit inside, or try to escape from this model that we put on everybody.

They are a dance, a slow movement by themselves. The dancer could give them a life. Some of them should melt and then move because of the heat of the fire. they could be use as a music instrument as well, by the musicians oe the dancer. By hitting them, and because of the ice they became strong and a kind of resonnance box, it create sound.