This theatrical solo confronts a work on movements with text fragments.

Through a series of movements, which clasps the text and is juxtaposed to it, appears the silhouette of a woman. She borrows her words to Robert Walser's "Marie", as well as to Marion - a character from Georg Buchner's "Danton's Death". Her movements echoe or contradict the text, according to what seems to be either a secret language, either a danse. Next to her resounds the absence of the one who left, or maybe never came.

The process of choreographic writing is based on the analysis of concrete actions and daily movements. First happens a meticulous cut-out of the initial action into micro-movements. By investigating the nature and design of each micro-movement, the whole sequence is unfolded and reshaped, and the movement score is elaborated. The resonance of the movement scores - with each other and with the texts - gives the work its internal line of force.

Marie is an exploration on solitude and perception of oneself through movement and breath.

The act of speaking and the desire to communicate prevail over the content. Between the gestural code – that could belong to a semaphore gone mad – and the flow of words, competition appears, discrepancy and interpolation, where different logics meet and bang together. This game becomes a long-distance race, which does not aim at the confirmation of a comforting identity, but at the constant elaboration of the self. Beyond this race and through the path of the score, a human figure is flickering, aiming at “the beginning", the starting point where we don't know or don't know yet.

This project had been developed within the framework of the activities of the Site de pratiques théâtrales [Site of theatrical practices] Lavauzelle (Creuse, France), in Paris and Janaillat (France), and in Wroclaw, with the support of the Teatr Pantomimy im. H. Tomaszewskiego (Wrocław) and at the Grotowski Institute.

In August 2010, it has been hosted in residency at La Métive (Creuse, France). It has been performed at La Métive and at the TRace Festival (Gottechain, Belgium).