Monique
Monique is a dance duet. Mark drags and pulls. Alix carries and pushes.
Keep it tight. Bring the short end up vertically. Insert it through the front loop you just created, running along the top of the main line and pull to tighten.
A costume passes the stage, dancing. Oh, how they love their clothes!
With infinite care, they trace the mechanics of the other’s body. They work hard in a sophisticated manner. They dance at the end of folds and nods in a long process of delicious ordeals. Estranged therapeutic caresses.
I want to be slid by you (just you, and nobody else but you). Feels like playing a piano with its hammers covered in leather.
Mark sighs, and Alix hides him away.
Credits
Concept: Alix Eynaudi
Performed and created by: Alix Eynaudi and Mark Lorimer
Light design: Kris Verdonck & Bruno Pocheron
Costume design: An Breugelmans
Musical adviser: Jean-Luc Plouvier
Artistic advisers: Lars Kwakkenbos
Technical director: Herman Venderickx
Production: Margarita Production for The Other vzw
Coproduction: Kaaitheater, Tanzquartier, Buda, Workspace Brussels
With the support of: Pianofabriek, Wp Zimmer, Vooruit & Flemish Government
Thanks to: Karen Lambaek, Maîtresse Athéna & Monique