The Cave Canem company was established in Toulouse in August 2000 and has been nurturing the work of Philippe Combes since then. The company's activity focuses on two complementary axes. On the one hand the production and the distribution of choreographic pieces, either in the settings of traditional places such as frontal theatre stages, or in special settings such as museums, waste land or in the open air; on the other hand the development of encounters with different publics like public rehearsals, and choreographic workshops. These choreographic pieces : “Dromos” in 2006, “X” in 2005, “Magma” in 2004, “Asterios” and “L-Dopa” in 2003, are performed in France and abroad on the occasion of various collaborations.
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Dromos 1 & 2 ( 2006 / 07)

Dromos 1 & 2 : two solos constructed over a period of two years, 2006 and 2007. One forms part of the continuity of the other.
 
The staging of Dromos 1, a pictorial object, concentrates on a closed space, a cocoon in which a being evolves, a consenting – if unconscious – prisoner of its environment. It thus exposes its body to external view without control over its image which, filtered by a vertical membrane, becomes double, since it is also processed digitally by the external screening of a video. The membrane, like a moving palimpsest, thus comprises two visions of the body: the first, sensual one from which the second, abstract one emanates, like two complementary poles which are transcended by the light at intervals.
 
In Dromos 2, the body is liberated from its cocoon. It departs from its virtual performance by breaking through the cloth to invade the stage. Constructed this time on a horizontal plane, Dromos 2 offers the newly formed being a far more extensive, less protected space, enabling it to become aware of its vulnerability and of being watched.

Solo/Danse – vidéo 2006 / 07
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Choreograph Philippe Combes
Interpreter Delphine Lorenzo
Video Cécile Babiole
Lights Patrick Riou
Sound Pan Sonic
Production      Séverine Combes
Configuration   One cloth stretched over an independent structure 4m x 3m, Lights, videoprojector
Coproduction    Compagnie Cave Canem - CDC Toulouse Midi-Pyrénées - CCN/Ballet Biarritz - Town of Toulouse
Support Fondation BNP Paribas
Duration  30 mn & 30 mn (5mn pause)


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