Korowod

Korowod is a piece created in 2013 at the end of Olga Dukhovna's studies. Twelve years later, it is revisited with a new Franco-Ukrainian team.

The starting point of Korowod is folk dances, ballet corps, moving choirs—all these collective movements that symbolize unity. Perfect dancers, military formations, shapes composed of hundreds of elements functioning in impeccable order. Individuality erased to make way for a collective body, a being made up of hundreds of obedient particles, a rolling machine.

Except there is always room for error—that profoundly human, inevitable thing. A structural flaw, an exception to the rule. A gap that shatters the system into pieces.

The loneliness of a part that has fallen out of the system—what might that look like?

Like a cell placed in a test tube. Like a football player lost on the field at night. Like a dancer's nightmare, dreaming that their partners have vanished in the middle of the performance, leaving them alone before millions of spectators.

The piece seeks to float between the formal and the human. To create tension between the real and the magical, between the mechanical body and the living body. A tension that will never be resolved.

Distribution / Team

• Olga Dukhovna: choreographer
• Daria Koval, Alina Tskhovryebova, Florence Casanave, Sonia Garcia, Charlotte Leroy: performers
• Soraya MoBé: costumes
• Blue, Fedor Vetkalov: music

Poduction

• Enora Floc’h & Amélie-Anne Chapelain / C.A.M.P

Premiere

• 2012 — Piece created for the first time as part of the training at CNDC Angers, France