This is not a Programme - Man Drake X  Lotus Edde-Khoury X  Jean Luc Guion

The Xevarion Institute

歇斯底里．支離破碎．近乎暈厥 － 法國實驗舞蹈劇場之夜 ｜ᴄᴇᴄɪ ɴ’ᴇꜱᴛ ᴘᴀꜱ ᴜɴ ᴘʀᴏɢʀᴀᴍᴍᴇ －experimental dance

Fringe Club

<h3>THIS IS NOT A PROGRAMME MAN DRAKE x Lotus Edde-Khoury x Jean Luc Guionnet</h3>1 May 2025 at 1900 at the Fringe Club (The Jockey Club Studio Theatre) Presented by The Xevarion Institute LATEST VAGUE NEWS 2 hours ago – Latest report just came in announcing that a special arm of French forces will be performing in HK this May. It is anticipated that these entities will deploy unusual strategies à la française with the intent to causing upset to the stale état des lieux in the Hong Kong art scene. FROM UNCONFIRMED SOURCES, it was said that choreographer Tomeo Vergés , who launched his dance company Man Drake in 1992, with Sandrine Maisonneuve and Alvaro Morell , creating a sort of fractured live tableaux with contaminated movements and physical stuttering, where bodies seemed to engaged in an prolonged system failure. The alienated bodies fight within themselves in an absurd and grotesque attempt to escape, as soon as humanly possible, agitated by hysterical syncope movements and jolts reaching a nauseous climax, trapped in an infernal Möbius strip. 2小時前 - 我們接獲最新消息，有指法國特種表演部隊將於今年5月來港執行任務，預計會採取不尋常策略à la française ，意圖擾亂香港藝術界的état des lieux 。 據初步了解，編舞家 Tomeo Verges於 1992 年與 Sandrine Maisonneuve和 Alvaro Morell創立了舞蹈公司 Man Drake，並創造出一種身體長期陷入系統故障不斷LAG機狀態的表演形式，就像困在地獄般的莫比烏斯帶中，以一連串歇斯底里支離破碎近乎暈厥的猛烈顛簸達到令人作嘔的高潮。

ANONYMOUS BACK CHANNEL reveals that Lotus Edde-Khoury, accused of being a dancer and guilty of choreography, and Jean Luc Guionnet, indicted for making musical compositions and was caught using instruments in the past, have been committing serious oeuvres artistiques since 2012. This duo appears to be entangled with such Einstein-Rosen Bridge phenomenon just as Man Drake’s self-imposed (meta)physical struggles on and off stage; an exertion of endurance, as much as absorption into silence and immobility. Their hyper-interaction can be likened to a visible and audible flux, creating both an insurrection and a civil war all at the same time. FULL BLOWN PENDINGThey will be flying in blind. No reconnaissance has been attempted on HK’s artogeography, they don't have any visual reference of one another, nor do they share the same syntax. This squad consists of four terpsichoreans and an instrumentalist, whose mission is to establish a rapport in a common enclave with tactics yet to be discovered; exposing their ground with frontal strikes or engaging in fragile and fluctuating alliances. The line of resistance will be drawn through physical and sonic movements in this collective experiment, as much as autonomous logics being put into friction. Nota Bene: This has nothing to do with the French May in HK 另有匿名人士透露， 自 2012 年以來一直從事oeuvres artistiques活動的舞者兼編舞家Lotus Eddé Khouri與音樂家Jean Luc Guiionnet雙人組合更於5月夥拍Man Drake，迎來兩個平行宇宙的首次交流。是次超級互動即將掀起一場震撼舞蹈界的強勁旋風。 全面爆發前所未見的放膽實驗！沒有任何對香港的藝術地理學進行偵察，彼此之間沒有任何視覺參考，也沒有相同語言。這支小隊由四名舞者和一名色士風演奏家組成，嘗試於今次任務中打破他們以往的創作模式，共同合作用聲音和肢體語言重新演繹他們的故事。​注意：是次表演並不是香港法國五月節目。

Agenda

概念Conception: Tomeo Vergés | 演繹Interpretation: Sandrine Maisonneuve | 服裝Costume : Laurence 

隨著催眠節拍器的節奏，在一條地板條內，一名女子正在進行一系列悸動的動作和重複的姿勢，在完美女人和祖先戰士的陳詞濫調和怪誕形象之間遊走。陷入似乎永無止境的漩渦中，她進行了一場來回的正面戰鬥，直到精疲力竭，直到這成為她解放的勝利。

獨奏《Que du Bonheur（？）》是三聯舞的一部分，探索了身體運動和重複的分解，並帶有實驗電影視覺語言的元素。

Set to the rhythm of a hypnotic metronome and within a floor strip, a woman is engaged in a series of throbbing movements and repetitive postures, navigating between clichés and grotesque images of a perfect woman and an ancestral warrior. Caught in a spiral that seems interminable, she leads a frontal battle literally back and forth until exhaustion, which becomes her liberating victory.

The solo Que du Bonheur (?) is part of a Triptych exploring the decomposition of body’s movements and repetition tinted with elements of experimental cinema’s visual language. 

QUE DU BONHEUR (?) (All Happiness (?))

概念及演繹 Conception and Interpretation | Lotus Eddé Khouri & Jean Luc Guionnet

Ce Qui Dure Dans Ce Qui Dure：兩個人並肩而立，一個跳舞，另一個吹色士風。多年來，我們一直在製造原材料，每次都會重新成型。這種材料是一種常見的持續時間，一種存在於當下的方式，一種當我們就位時立即啟動的連續體。它不是被給予的，也不是我們找到的，而是我們自己創造的。因此，我們從兩種狀態的對立開始：ON 和 OFF。 ON是舞蹈和音樂的共同演進，至於OFF，它是距離任何活動最遠的點，遠遠超越了沉默或靜止......或者超越了這些！ OFF與ON是兩個完整的動作。 OFF 揭示了沒有我們參與而發生的連續過程：就好像我們看著它過去一樣。 ON 由耐心、努力和體力消耗、聯合重複、對或多或少最近的過去的回憶、驚喜和決定組成。這些決定，例如影響或相互交織的行動，既取決於具體情況（顏色、建築、觀眾、背景噪音…），也取決於我們彼此之間採取的暴力或相互攻擊。我們為自己製造問題；耐心、姿勢、疲勞的問題：音樂和舞蹈共同成為解決方案，建築是現場建造的，出於對耐力的挑戰和對空虛的需求，但也是為了虛無……，透過我們汗水的共同作用或任意的浪漫結局。


Ce Qui Dure Dans Ce Qui Dure: two bodies side by side, one dances, the other plays the saxophone. Over the years, we have manufactured our raw material, the one that we re-form every time. This material is a common duration, a way of being in the present, a continuum that kick starts as soon as we are in position. It was not given to us, we did not find it, we have made it. 

The piece lasts 20 mins followed by a 15-minute intermission.


CE QUI DURE DANS CE QUI DURE (What Last in What is Lasting) 

Intermission

概念Conception: Tomeo Vergés | 演繹Interpretation: Alvaro Morell 

……轉身，轉向自己，轉圈，轉錯方向，在虛空中拐彎抹角，翻頁發瘋，轉身……反過來，阿爾瓦羅·莫雷爾拒絕構成我們的多個方面，拒絕到眩暈的程度，他摘下面具，去審視男性和女性之外的另一種比我們更深層的本性

「我名叫『軍團』，因為我們眾多。」馬可福音 5:9

...turn turn on yourself turn with going in circles wrong turn beat around around the bush in the void turn the page going nuts take a turn .... in turn Alvaro Morell declines to the point of vertigo the multiple facets that he is composed of and that compose us he drops the masks to examine beyond the masculine and the feminine another nature deeper than ours

 

« My name is legion; for we are many »

                                                   Mark 5:9

M Ultitudes

香港首演 HK première 

概念及演繹 Conception and interpretation｜ Tomeo Vergés, Sandrine Maisonneuve, Alvaro Morell, Lotus Eddé Khouri and Jean Luc Guionnet 

音樂 Live music by Jean Luc Guionnet 

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