Robyn Orlin
‘in a corner the sky surrenders – unplugging archival journeys… #3 (for Volmir❣)…’
novembernov 13 – 15
© Jérôme Séron ©
© Jérôme Séron ©
© Jérôme Séron ©
A project by Robyn Orlin. With Volmir Cordeiro. Lighting design and stage management Beatriz Kaysel Velasco e Cruz, alternately with Agathe Patonnier (stage management). Sound design Loup Gangloff. Costumes Birgit Neppl. Touring Damien Valette. Coordination Bertille Zimmermann.
Production City Theatre & Dance Group; Damien Valette Production
Coproduction Le Dancing – CDCN Dijon Bourgogne-Franche-Comté, as part of the studio residency programme – French Ministry of Culture
Residency support from the CND – Centre national de la danse and creation residency at L’Espace Pier Paolo Pasolini
With the support of the DRAC Île-de-France – French Ministry of Culture
On a street corner, when a life is upended and the sky loses its bearings: Robyn Orlin’s seminal solo, originally created in New York inside a cardboard box, is now revived by a performer whose own journey brings a new perspective to the work. Following revivals with Nadia Beugré in 2022 at the Festival d’Automne and with Marta Izquierdo Munoz in 2024 at La Place de la Danse, Robyn Orlin entrusts the interpretation in 2025 to Volmir Cordeiro.
In 1994, Robyn Orlin, a recent graduate in dramatic and visual arts at the Art Institute of Chicago, decided to spend a few months in New York. Struck by the presence of homeless people she encountered on Lower East Side, she devised a show, dedicated to them, which was performed inside an empty cardboard box for a refrigerator. Mixing actions, movements and dance with her « Fourth Dimension » studies in art in Chicago, the piece was a turning point in terms of her onstage work. Indeed, in a corner… remained present in the recesses of her mind, only to suddenly reappear during the period of self-isolation in 2020 - symbolic, perhaps, of a switch to survival mode. The idea came to her of passing on this act of aesthetic disobedience to the dancer and choreographer, Volmir Cordeiro. The latter embodies the spirit of rebellion and energy that characterised the young Robyn Orlin.
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