From B to B

From B to B proposes a collaboration between Thomas Hauert and Catalonian choreographer Àngels Margarit. “From B to B” evokes a journey between Brussels and Barcelona as well as the Point B to which each of the two artists had arrived, by way of their own unique paths, from Point A of a hypothetical clean slate. One could say that the principle theme of From B to B is communication: the will to approach the other, to understand and share their world – or the impossibility to arrive at such an understanding. The performance poses questions about “translation,” a filter inevitably placed on all modes of communication. To Thomas and Àngels, the two initial and most important elements of the piece, a third is added: the language that unites (and separates) them. The choreographers called upon “verbivore” Màrius Serra. Departing from the words “Thomas” and “Àngels” he created a doublet that became the through-line of the performance. A game, a chain of words born of the wish to make the piece’s creators meet through language, acting as a structure on which they attach their past and present.

Swiss Dance Awards 2013.