Exile

Concept, direction and interpretation by Yves Lebreton; set design, costume, lights and music montage by Yves Lebreton; music by Gavis Bryars (‘Sinking of the Titanic’) and J.S. Bach (harpsichord concertos); premiered on 9 November 1996; Italy; 60’

The man.
Absence.
Interference.
A wait. 

On the border between the body and the space,
He holds still.
The steadiness of the moment places him on this watershed,
In the centre of imbalance and rebalance,
There where the eyes absorb the gaze
Like a mirror the reflected image.

The cadence of the breath hammers its presence.
The impulse pushes him into the provisional.
The provisional throws him in the space.
The blood brings the continuity of his steps
In the corridor of the trajectory.

The burning of the movement consumes him.
The voice breaks the vision.
The silence recreates the fragments of its explosion. 

The exile is breakage,
Point of no return,
Shell of acknowledgement.