The respected French dancer enlists the help of German producer, DJ, and Berghain resident for an extended piece channeling years of research around club dancing as an art form. 

Gies breaks down the barriers between popular and professional dance in this poetic experimentation of a dancefloor on a dancefloor. As they explain, "Since 2014 and my encounter with the techno DJ and producer Fiedel, techno music is a central element in my pieces. Many of my latest works reference clubs and raves, in the dance itself or in the collective experience to which I invite the spectators. During these years, I have also developed a practice called ‘Technosomatics’, which brings together somatic explorations and club dancing. 

“In some of my pieces, I have worked on approaching club dancing in a formal and compositional way. Shadowboxing takes club dance as a vast field of movement and poetic experimentation, and states that this form of dance is way more than just dancing around. Through the dance and the way it is interwoven with the music, various bodies and images take shape. My body becomes the channel for making other characters, creatures, and entities temporarily inhabit the dance floor."

https://shapeplatform.eu/artist/frederic-gies/

https://www.fiedel.berlin/

https://fiedel.bandcamp.com/