NUMÉRO 0, 2023, 18’34’’, NUMÉRO 0 I, 2024, 16’45’’, Marie-Caroline Hominal as part of Dance First Think Later

Marie-Caroline Hominal’s artistic practice involves dance, video, sculpture, drawing, text, and radio. Close to the field of performance art, she has presented her work in theatres, museums, and art galleries, as well as in unconventional venues such as hotel rooms, theatre dressing rooms, semi-trailer lorries, and building sites.

Numéro 0 and Numéro 0 I are two videos made with a new group of dancers as a prelude to a performance presented in the foyer of Pavillon ADC in 2023. One was shot at the Jardin Anglais and Place du Rhône in Geneva, where the protagonists, dressed in brightly coloured clothes, form a swirling mosaic driven by the rhythms of drums and guitar. The other uses the stairwell of the former HEAD building on Boulevard Helvétique as a kind of vertical stage. In ten quasi-mathematical sequences, incorporating the specific features of the architecture and freely inspired by Marcel Duchamp’s Nude Descending a Staircase (1911), the bodies perform a series of almost mechanical choreographies in a chromatic atmosphere of mineral grey. These two contrasting parades respond to each other in their complementary dynamics.

Marie-Caroline Hominal, who trained at ZhDK Tanzakademie Zurich and the Rambert School of Ballet and Contemporary Dance in London, has danced for Gisèle Vienne, Gilles Jobin, La Ribot, and Marco Berrettini. She created her first piece, Fly Girl, in 2008. Her projects take many forms, from a piece for one viewer, Le Triomphe de la Renommée (2013) to a performance-concert, Silver (2013), collaborations in duo with François Chaignaud, Duchesses (2009), then the triptych of collaborative pieces Hominal/, with respectively Markus Hörn (2018), Nelisiwe Xaba (2019), and David Hominal (2023), a performance in a stage/truck, Le Cirque Astéroïde (2020) or a performance for museums or other spaces, Euréka, c’est presque le titre (2021). Her work has been presented in Europe, Asia, and North and South America. In 2019, she received the Outstanding Female Dancer prize at the Swiss Dance Awards.

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NUMÉRO 0, 2023, 18’34’’, colour video
Directed and edited by Marie-Caroline Hominal / With: Catia Bellini, Alexandre Bibia, Natan Bouzy, Laetitia Gex, Anaïs Glérant, Marie-Caroline Hominal, La Krasse, Akané Nussbaum, Filibert Tologo, Solène Schnüriger / Camera: Edoardo Nerboni / Sound editing and mixing: Mathilda Angullo / Grading: Sébastien Baudemont / Assistant: Laura Laucella / Technician: Daniel Manzano Garcia / Driver: Michel Défago / Production manager: Emilie Marron / Production assistant: Anna Piroud / Accounting: Gonzague Bochud / With the support of Switzerland’s Federal Office of Culture and the Republic and Canton of Geneva.

NUMÉRO 0 I, 2024, 16’45”, colour video
Directed and edited by Marie-Caroline Hominal / With: Alexandre Bibia, Natan Bouzy, Marcus Diallo, Laetitia Gex, Marie-Caroline Hominal, Akané Nussbaum / Camera: Edoardo Nerboni / Sound mixing: Maxence Ciekawie / Production manager: Emilie Marron / Accounting: Gonzague Bochud