Les incorporations monstrueuses de la mémoire. You Made Me a Monster (2005) de William Forsythe

The essay focuses on the performance-installation You Made Me a Monster by the American choreographer William Forsythe that opened the third international festival of contemporary dance of the Venice Biennale in 2005. It describes the performance-installation and discusses the major issues it deals with to answer to the following questions: how do we remember the death of a loved one? How do we make sense of the experience of suffering and mourning, and how do we share it? Moreover, how do we tell the story of physical and psychological pain? For Forsythe, "research" literally means "to look again", "to search again" and "to try to understand how art can be today ", placing at the center of the exploration the gaze and the role of the spectator with whom his choreographic works and performances establish an always renewed relationship. The essays analyses how Forsythe created this performance-installation and how it dealt with these concepts starting from the moving bodies of the performers.