Anne Sylvie Henchoz

Tempo on island surfaces, 2017, HD Film, 3’30, color. With the participation of Floriane Gasser, Zoé Hoffstetter and Colline Grosjean

Anne Sylvie Henchoz brings together a trio of women drummers for her new film, Tempo on island-surfaces, to create a sensual, rhythmical
choreography played out in various “musical landscapes” created by the postures and movements of the musicians. The piece is composed

of a basic tempo to which solos are added one at a time. The musical instrument is the body and the women transgress its limits
by exploring the sounds produced when their percussive hands strike their bellies, thehollows of the cheeks or the ground on which they stand.

Each has a different way of drumming and this can be seen in the bodily energy generated during their performance.
Close-ups and shots that spin around the drummers highlight the texture of the rhythms, the rustling of the sequins on the fabric

and the internal resonance offered by their legs when their feet strike down. The film offers an invitation to play by redefining, through rhythm,

sound and movement, the ways in which we occupy space. Marie Gyger, Fri Art, Fribourg, http://www.fri-art.ch/fr