Amplitudes intérieures
In her book Amplitudes intérieures, Andréane Leclerc explores the performing body through the combined legacies of contortion, somatic practices, physical dramaturgy, and performance art. Drawing on nearly twenty-five years of research, she approaches contortion as a practice of listening, relating, and transformation, one that allows us to access the stories held within the body and give them a voice.Her approach invites an inward journey, opening up new possibilities for movement. It is rooted in exercises that encourage the creation of space within the body through imagery that enables bodily reorganization. Inner territories emerge as landscapes, characters, and sensations.Movement arises from a relationship with these images rather than from the will to produce a gesture. The practice is open to everyone and requires no particular physical abilities. It can be explored individually or in a group.
(X)
(X) invites the audience to settle wherever they wish, for as long as they like, within a vast space immersed in darkness and silence. A woman stands before a light source. Motionless, she gently sways in a near-hypnagogic state: she is dreaming with her eyes open. Her face is concealed. With her listening and gaze turned inward, it is her body that speaks. Here, everyone is free to imagine and shape their own experience alongside her.
À l'Est de Nod
A physical reflection on boundaries and delimitations, this creation questions our relationship to the physical, disciplinary and belief space in order to implode the product-producer system and penetrate an area where there is only energy exchange, wandering and movement, and no end in itself.
Creation : 2021
Sang Bleu
Sang Bleu is an exploration of the body and its relationship to the matter that composes it. Clusters of flesh and bacteria, the bodies penetrate, devour and decompose.
Creation : 2018
The Whore of Babylon featuring the Tiger Lillies
To the original music of the London cult group, The Whore of Babylon is a reinterpretation of the myth of the Great Harlot (Revelation, 17), a living, carnal, feminist fresco that embraces pleasure, explodes the forces of binary domination and all references to Good and Evil and overthrows Hell to make it the Paradise of God. .
Creation : 2015
Cherepaka
Cherepaka means turtle in Russian. Composed of a shell and flesh, the Turtle carries within it the duality between eternity and ephemerality. Cherepaka depicts the death of a turtle and echoes the tension that inhabits human beings between their quest for infinity and the mortality of their animal flesh.
Creation : 2014
Di(x)parue
Di(x)parue is an in situ performance, a sensitive physical dialogue between the performer, the spectator, the place and the present moment. This abstract and ephemeral form, which will disappear at the end of the performance, is the result of a scenic research on phenomenology. Di(x)parue is a lived experience.
Creation : 2009
Bath House
Witnesses, the spectators' bodies form large walls around the stage and look down on the contortionist bodies at ground level.
Creation : 2013
Mange-Moi
Mange-Moi is a female contortionist's view of contortion, often performed by young girls, and of the sexualized image that can be projected towards the audience. Mange-Moi exposes this body, making the artist and the spectator who watches her fully aware of her fragility, her sexuality and her femininity. A process of empowerment through the objectification of one's body, Mange-Moi seeks to create a protective distance between the soul and the body.
Creation 2013
InSuccube
Two mothers, two sisters, two actresses and two courtesans; a stripper and a contortionist; a singer and a whip manipulator. Women, they sail the ocean on a glass boat. Goddesses with siren songs, they will train you and guide you into the shallows of your dreams and fantasies.
Creation : 2012