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Compagnie Sfumato

Clara Grosjean

Choreography / Performance

The Brains

2021

The Brains - Clara Grosjean. Crédits photos: Alberto Quirico
The Brains - Clara Grosjean. Crédits photos: Alberto Quirico
The Brains - Clara Grosjean. Crédits photos: Alberto Quirico
The Brains - Clara Grosjean. Crédits photos: Alberto Quirico
The Brains - Clara Grosjean. Crédits photos: Alberto Quirico

5 brains and 6 bodies are trapped in their memories and disordered thoughts.

This work is related to my eagerness to explore and research memory loss, mental disorders, and the relationship between mind-body-brain-soul. In such an agitated world, where silence is rare, I search for marginality and look at what is happening within. 

On a choreographic level, the work attempts physically to mirror the thoughts that arise, with unshaped and spontaneous movements. Reversely, like a loop, the physical reactions that they experienced inform their thoughts. 

The Brains themselves are handmade with waste and recycled objects, to transform what is already present in my surrounding. This suggests the mental pollution in which we are living nowadays.

The Brains  was initially a performance and became a dance film because of the covid pandemic.

Concept & Choreography: Clara Grosjean

Director of photography: Fugue - Abhay Kumar
Performers: Beatriz Baptista, Alida Bergakker, Coline Delgado, Paul Elie, Clara Grosjean, Dan Mihai Radulescu
Editing & Sound: Clara Grosjean
Lights & Pictures: Alberto Quirico

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Supports

AHK - Amsterdam University of the Arts - Cross-academy Fund 

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The Brains was presented at:

Stockholm Fringe Festival - September 2023 (cancelled)

DIVE Festival Rotterdam - May 2023

Panel Magazine Budapest - January 2022

« No room to swing a cat » Festival, AHK Amsterdam - June 2021

The Brains - Clara Grosjean. Crédits photos: Alberto Quirico
The Brains - Clara Grosjean. Crédits photos: Alberto Quirico
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