_ p/\rc___ is a choreographic composition involving a dozen telepresence robots.
_p/\rc___
With _p/\rc___, Shonen transforms the extended stage of the Théâtre du Châtelet (Paris, France) into a large park with renewed standards, from which specific dances are born, associating children with physical motor disorders and dancers. Around them, with them, a swarm of telepresence robots, piloted
by other children or adults with physical disabilities. The bodies meet. The dancers become at the same time prostheses of the bodies said to be impeded, but also toboggans, living carousels.
The robots push, pull, draw with the children, carry the stories and songs of the pilot-performers. What is the difference between « presence » and « telepresence »? What does it mean making (yourself) accessible? The audience, invited to walk around the stage as close as possible to these interdependent dances, shake up this strange inner park, a park outside the norm, by their movements.
