TEXTING with Bryana Fritz

What if text were the pulse of the club?

For its last edition, Vestiaire joins forces with dancer, author and choreographer Bryana Fritz to make text trespass into the night. Together with writers, readers, performers, dj’s and dancers, we’ll research how language can move us. Between voice, page and dance floor, the space of Vestiaire contracts and expands into intimate spaces for the social and erotic potential of a fragmented, yet shared script. It is whispered into the ear at night in a hoarse voice (Jean Genet).

Passing between different tongues, voices and registers, language gathers attachments, associations and meanings that exceed its initial intentions, opening onto an unruly, unfinished field of meaning. The ink is the shadow of a tongue that cannot find its mouth in the daylight (Theresa Hak Kyung Cha).

But in the encroaching darkness of winter, dancing together might not be so different. The night does not belong to the day's text. To those who go down into it, it is a rewrite of everything they thought they knew (Djuna Barnes). The movement from the desk to the dance floor always feels too studious during the day, as though writing and dancing belong to separate orders of experience. But perhaps the erotic promise of night can chaotically reorder this divide.

Keep your ears open for a bittersweet poem at the bar or a long bath in someone else’s words.

Readers: Anna Franziska Jäger & Nathan Ooms, Bryana Fritz, Camille Legrand & Nemo Flouret, Chloe Chignell, egutchi, Eris Previtali, Gabriel René Franjou, Jayson Batut, Jean Lemersre & Zakary Bairi, Sékou Séméga, Sophia Rodríguez, Stefa Govaart, Steph Holl-Trieu, Stine Sampers, Théo Demans, Vieze Meisje, ZigZag Reading Room

DJ's: Gucciblck b2b Jhayance, James Massiah, Mona Felah