This piece was originally created as a duet with Sorour Darabi. For  artistic reasons, it then evolved into a solo in which the question of  the same and the other, of identity and a double are worked on in the  same body.

At the beginning, a voice: the recording of a timbre, a  breath, like the appearance of a radical otherness. At the beginning, a  language: a rhythm, a phrasing, a repetition, a meaning that slips  away. From this voice a series of questions affecting language is born.  What can dance do with a voice: attempt to approach the world it  transports at the border of meaning, or redeploy a movement in the  depths of its intensities, or its frictions, so as to reconstitute its  own system of sensation and interpretation? After a journey through the  physical, linguistic or anthropological questions raised by this  recording, concerning a male rite of passage, Pol Pi has produced a  piece – while making this forename the pass word to a possible transformation. As in her previous creation, Ecce (H)omo, the departure  material sets the coordinates of a new sensitive territory. First  accompanied by the performer Sorour Darabi, then alone, Pol Pi has  tied a knot, an interweaving, in which has been curled a reflection  about the construction of what is the same and what is different.  Between her body, her voice and her imaginary doubles there arises a  ritual navigation between the near and the far, fusion and cut-off,  dream and reality, masculine and feminine.

source: program of the CND

Pol Pi started by studying music, the theatre and Butoh, before discovering contemporary dance. After graduating in classical music at  the University of Campinas, she took a Ex.e.r.ce masters at the CCN of  Montpellier from 2013 to 2015, where she worked on the notion of  reconstitution and studied the dances of the German choreographer Dore Hoyer. In 2017, this research led to the creation of the solo Ecce (H)omo. She also works with various choreographers: Holly Cavrell,  Clarissa Sachelli, Eszter Salamon, Latifa Laâbissi/Nadia Lauro, Pauline  Simon, Anna Anderegg, Aude Lachaise... In 2019, Paula Pi became Pol Pi.

Since 2001, the National Center for Dance (CND) has been making recordings of its shows and educational programming and has created resources from these filmed performances (interviews, danced conferences, meetings with artists, demonstrations, major lessons, symposia specialized, thematic arrangements, etc.).