Boris Charmatz

For this new work, manger, Charmatz investigates how to set bodies in motion not with the eyes or with the limbs, but with the mouth. The mouth acts as the crossroads where food, voices, breath and words meet; a space where the self and the other engage, and ingest each other. Charmatz uses this metaphor as the vehicle for his choreography in manger, choosing to challenge the role that the mouth and eating play in choreography, dance and performance.

Standing at the boundaries between a mobile installation and a performance piece, manger offers its audience what Charmatz terms a ‘swallowed reality’: a slow digestion of the world.