Pol Pi

“Beauty is secondary” is one of the instructions that appears at the beginning of the fourth movement of the Sonata for Solo Viola, Op. 25 No. 1, by the German composer Paul Hindemith (1895–1963). It could well have been uttered by his compatriot, the Expressionist choreographer Dore Hoyer (1911–1967), creator of the dance cycle Afectos Humanos, on which Pol Pi has been working since 2014.

Tenderness welcomes as many definitions as there are personal experiences of it, and in this piece two performer-choreographers and a performer-musician embark us upon a collective, experimental form of research into this anti-authoritarian motto. It leads to a transformation of ways of being together, but also of the different forms that representation can take.