The Italian-Swiss choreographer and dancer Yasmine Hugonnet was raised in Mali and France, worked in Taiwan and Norway, and now lives in Paris. She studied at the National Conservatory of Paris and later attended the postgraduate programme Dance Unlimited in Rotterdam, the Netherlands.In her work, she is fascinated by the ideas of embodiment and presence. As a choreographer, she created Intrusions (2002) and Collection of Triggers (2005). For the French dance company Synalephe, and together with choreographer Maxime Iannarelli, she co-created Beyond Project (2001) with eight blind performers of different ages from the Shin Bodo group in Taiwan, as well as DUET OcReTerrE (2001), Songes – A Trip to the City's Heart (2001), and Dream of a Chinese Fish (2005). As a dancer, she performed in Tok Pisin (2003) by Jo Strømgren Kompani (Norway) and Creatura (2005) by Jean-Marc Heim (Switzerland). Her first project in Ljubljana was developed during a three-month residency in Slovenia as a laureate of Pépinières européennes pour jeunes artistes, within the framework of the mapXXL programme.
Re-play explores memory as a choreographic practice. Built on simple principles of repetition, imitation and transposition, the work investigates what happens when one body attempts to remember, reproduce or inhabit another. How do we carry traces of others within ourselves? What remains when a gesture, a movement or an experience is transferred from one person to another?
At the centre of the performance lies the act of replaying. One performer recalls another, only to be recalled in return. Through this continuous exchange, movement becomes a space of negotiation between memory and presence, similarity and difference, self and other. Rather than seeking perfect reproduction, Re-play embraces the gaps, distortions and transformations that inevitably emerge in the process.
The prefix "re"—to repeat, return, revisit—becomes both a method and a subject. Invisible yet constantly present, it marks a meeting point where memories are shared, translated and embodied anew.