Body Me

“Body me” is built from a simple decision: the bodies of the others become the source. Each dancer’s movement is not invented in isolation but drawn out of someone else’s—observed, touched, interrupted, borrowed, translated. The choreography directs how material is generated: bodies reading bodies, bodies shaping bodies, bodies passing on information that cannot be fully owned.

There is no linear narrative here, but a set of shifting situations. Solo becomes duet, duet becomes group, intimacy becomes distance, support becomes resistance. The piece treats the body as both matter and meaning: a physical reality, and a site onto which society projects care, fear, desire, control. We continually concern ourselves with the bodies of others—who may move, who must stop, who is allowed to be close, who is kept away.

“Body me” stays with that tension. It asks what is created when the body is not only the center of dance, but the central question in general: how do we handle one another, how do we learn from one another, and what do we lose—or recover—through the act of making movement together.

CYRIL BALDY

Cyril Baldy, born in France, is a highly regarded dancer, choreographer, teacher and rehearsal director. He trained in dance from 1993 to 1997 at the Conservatoire National Supérieur de Musique et de Danse de Paris. His professional career began in 1997 with the Jeune Ballet de France. Shortly afterwards, he moved to Nederlands Dans Theater II and subsequently to Nederlands Dans Theater I under the direction of Jiří Kylián, where he danced until 2002.

Baldy then moved to Ballett Frankfurt and finally joined The Forsythe Company in 2005, where he danced until 2014 under the artistic direction of William Forsythe. Since 2014, he has been working freelance as a choreographer and teacher, as well as a rehearsal director and ballet master for Forsythe’s works.

He has worked with numerous renowned companies, including Ballet BC, Nederlands Dans Theater, Ballet de l’Opéra de Lyon and Pacific Northwest Ballet.