JLP 2043
«Comme un long interminable cri,» is what she answered when asked how a solo might sound that she would dance forever. JLP 2043 – a solo for Julie Laporte.
There are songs that are hard to get out of your head and pieces of clothing that accompany you for a lifetime. Or at least for a long stretch. Julie Laporte’s solo JLP 2043 is like such a favorite piece of clothing. An object that is always familiar and yet which is constantly changing. Sometimes it drapes a little like this on her body, other times, like that, intimately cherished through years of being worn, part of her as well as partly always foreign. She will dance it for the next twenty-five years, seemingly forever or for as long as she lives. The solo unfolds its vigor over the duration of this lifetime. It isn’t the euphoria of the new, but the still, non-agitated joy of newly and re-discovering the old.
Hearsay claims that the solo rejuvenates not only the cells of the dancer, but also those of all who are present when she dances it. But this isn’t the main point. According to the teachings of ancient Taoism, JLP 2043 is a solo of gradual disappearance, of negation, and of affirmative denial. It tells of the access to the future, of which we are never certain, of the relationship between choreography and dance, of strategically gentle solidarity in times of flexibly mobile overexploitation, and of the love between dancer and choreographer.
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