Cap au pire (Worstward Ho) According to Maguy Marin and Dominique Dupuy Between Abstraction and Concretisation

Dance withdraws Cap au pire from out of literary abstraction. An eponymous performance by Maguy Marin gives concrete expression to three motifs of the text: the skull, the black coat and the hand holding the child’s hand. Dominique Dupuy also chose to include this image of the old man and the child in his Acte sans paroles I. In his ‘dansées’, the gestures cease to be mimetic and become ethical. Cap au pire appears as the concrete project of an old artist who tries to say and do again.