What Shall We Do Next (Séquence #2)

For the past ten years, Julien Prévieux (FR, 1974, based in Paris) has been researching patents, filed with an American agency and he has been composing “an archive of future gestures”. The movements enacted by the six performers in What Shall We Do Next ? (Séquence # 2) derive from this collection of phantom acts, sometimes stillborn, conceived before the machines which will decide their function have even been put together. Ticking over in a series of rhythmic sequences, they interweave the world of dance and its history. The script-based origin of these controlled gestures recalls the work of Rudolf Laban, inventor of a famous system of movement notation. Meanwhile their probable functional purposes bring to mind American postmodern dance, inspired by Anna Halprin’s ideas on the expression of everyday gesture.