Collages in dance
Comme dans un rêve Christelle Hodencq’ soul dances us her creativity in any aspect of life. Formed in the world of theater and dance, she is the creator of the États de danse company based in Paris, as well as an entire artistic imagery captured through various projects ranging from theater performance to recital and from collage to poetry. In her poem La petite histoire, she choreographs the dilemma of existence writing “De la femme plurielle à la femme singulière, voyage de l'inconscient dans la main et les pieds qui dansent... L'âme”. And her personal journey is entirely open for a continued exploration as an eternal collage as a way of life for collecting experiences, feelings, ideas and desires to merge them into her personal dance.
Her exhibition Comme dans un rêve connects easily with a dreamlike air from the beginning. Indeed, the first piece, La vieille âme, shows the soul of life as a constant ray emerged from the dream itself, and the old soul appears suddenly full of energy. Amour etc goes into love relationships and their usual consequences after forming a family. In its first term, Christelle shows a man far-off the family's future while the woman gives birth and protects children wrapped in gray. Vu is colorful and focuses on our view of the world and in the eyes of those who are our look’s objects being observed and observers at a time. La femme gâteau confronts us with young women as sex objects while female age is set aside. Passage of time is presented here as terrible and unavoidable prison for women. Gangsters of love is mainly in red on black combined with texts like Maudits mots dits, Petits trop mineurs or the same Gangsters of love, desire and the darker side of human beings, deception, intermingles turning a past brilliance into wounds. Viens avec moi is colorful, lively and full of small details in which stop and succumb to temptation. Les fruits de la femme makes breast go red and burns our eyes looking for the origin of life. La promesse has a critical load on the values of the revolution with the sentence liberté, égalité et fraternité broken because in the case of women has never come into compliance.
Christelle Hodencq plays with the other’s point of views in order to recreate them and give them her own vital breath, the breath of an actress and dancer who goes into artistic creation with a strong personality and a passion that shakes our comfortable apathy. Beautiful.
Text by Juan Carlos Romero
Photo by Laurent Demartini