GAMEBOY

Sylvain Huc discovered contemporary dance after studying Art History in college. By the end of his last essay in 2003 on “bestiality, savagery and female sexuality in Ancient Greece”, he joined the Toulouse Choreographic Development Centre, he met the choreographer Marco Berrettini and performed in his piece Old Movements for New Bodies. From that moment on, as if it had been a mystical revelation, Sylvain devoted to dance collaborating with different companies. In 2010 he started creating his own choreographies in association with the Company Divergences. Four years later he became its art director. From then on, apart from performing and choreographing, Sylvain Huc offers workshops in universities and psychiatric institutions. As a result of one of these workshops with male students from the Universitè Jean Jaurès of Toulouse he created Gameboy. It was March 2016, and Sylvain had the clear intention of letting the piece evolve from city to city where it was performed. There will be a workshop through the previous week, where performers from Madrid, Toulouse and Barcelona will participate. Gameboy offers the opportunity to ask ourselves how we think about manhood, its flesh, its skin and its presence. On stage these men find themselves. They show their masculine body full of desire, adiction, frenzy, tension, abandonment or monstrosity. They question image, representation, de-construction and plasticity of male body. They try to open up a space where they can talk about themselves and their status, trying to solve the problem of their bodies. Sylvain Huc uses the utterance of writer Virgine Despentes to start the investigation: “men love to talk about women because that prevents them from talking about themselves”. For that reason, in Gameboy, it is men who talk about their absolute singularity and the roles into which they are forced, showing their strenght or weakness.



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