Pas de deux

Anna-Marija Adomaityte, a Lithuanian choreographer based in Geneva, has built her own artistic career by investigating and challenging different forms of «social violence». Her Pas de deux was born in this context, as a challenge to the classical representations of the duet. Against an intense blue background, a man and a woman perform the gestures of a choreographed couple. The audience listens to their breathing, perceives the impatient movements of the bodies, observes their gazes fade… Their frenetic movements soon turn into exhaustion and put the spectacle itself at risk. Adomaityte’s Pas de deux seems to free itself from the rhetorical and oppressive romanticism of its predecessors, allowing what is underlying or silent to emerge.