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Gade has strung together the references to 'the old ocean' from 'The Songs of Maldoror', the book by Comte de Lautréamont which first appeared in limited edition in 1869 and which was rediscovered by the Surrealists. The text, with all its poetic elaborations and exclamations, is too long to quote here, hence this minimal piece: ''Old ocean, with your crystal waves, on a large scale, you resemble those sky blue welts one sees on the flogged backs of the young seamen; you are an immense bruise thumped on the body of the earth: I like that comparison.'' Gade has tried to illustrate the mood of these resonant and undulating texts with discolouring shots of the surf, sometimes in double shot with a map from the school atlas or the skyline of a city behind the beach, interrupted by rotating patches as if she is drifting along in the tremendous whirlpool that Ovidius and Edgar Allan Poe have already written about.
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Erik Daams
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Text: de Lautréamont ('Chants de Maldoror'),
Camera, light, editing: Fernando Alvarez Cozzi,
Choreography: Julia Gade,
With: Julia Gade, Jose Claudio,
Production: Grupo Teatro - Danza de Montevideo
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