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And again and again and again
by Laëtitia Badaut Haussmann
2012, 5′ 35”
Original Format: HD
Presented at Lo schermo dell’arte 2013 in occasion of the Screening Program at Villa Romana
The film is part of VISIO – European Programme on Artists’ Moving Images – 2nd edition
The film And again and again and again accompanies the persistent acquisition of elementary gestures, both choreographic and cinematographic. As it revolves around the dancer, the camera responds to his unending pirouette with a circular tracking shot, unending also. The resulting dizziness is mutual, taking over the dancer’s body as much as the camera’s eye. Little by little the training – both physical and visual – gives way to an exhaustion similar to hypnosis, which is only enhanced by the presence of the mirror. It concerns bodily and mental endurance, for the dancer – judge and jury – can never fully see the movement that he hopes to perfect in the flat, unmoving and forgetful mirror. The camera will be the ideal visualization tool: the “sending into orbit” of the internal eye of the dancer, of memory and his movement.
The film was made in 2012 in the Balanchine Studio at the Ménagerie de verre, with the participation of Noé Soulier, danseur and choreographer Hélène Meisel.
Laëtitia Badaut Haussmann (Francia, 1980). Lives and works in Paris. She graduated from the École Nationale Supérieure d’Arts de Paris-Cergy in 2006, and attended the Pavillon programme at the Palais de Tokyo in 2011-12. She is currently teaching on the cinema MA at Paris Diderot university.
Her work has been included in numerous exhibitions in France and Europe and she has recently exhibited at MACVAL (Ivry 2013), CPIF (Pontault-Combault, 2013), Maison Populaire (Montreuil, 2013), Palais de Tokyo (Paris, 2010 and 2012), Galerie des Galeries (Paris, 2012), Transpalette (Bourges, 2011) and the Musée d’Art Moderne (Paris, 2010). She has exhibited with solo shows at Inextenso (Clerment-Ferrand, 2012) and Galerie Dohyang Lee (Paris, 2010).
The participation of Laëtitia Badaut Haussmann is supported by the Institut français Firenze.
Her work has been included in numerous exhibitions in France and Europe and she has recently exhibited at MACVAL (Ivry 2013), CPIF (Pontault-Combault, 2013), Maison Populaire (Montreuil, 2013), Palais de Tokyo (Paris, 2010 and 2012), Galerie des Galeries (Paris, 2012), Transpalette (Bourges, 2011) and the Musée d’Art Moderne (Paris, 2010). She has exhibited with solo shows at Inextenso (Clerment-Ferrand, 2012) and Galerie Dohyang Lee (Paris, 2010).
The participation of Laëtitia Badaut Haussmann is supported by the Institut français Firenze.