<p><strong>By Blanca Li and the Studio Orta</strong> <br />Choreography and conception : Blanca Li <br /><strong>Music</strong> : Matthew Herbert and Tao Gutierrez <br />Textile architecture and conception : Lucy Orta <br />Installation and video conception : Jorge Orta <br />Video : Charles Carcopino, Maison des Arts de Cr&eacute;teil <br />Lights : Jorge Orta and Thierry Lenain.</p>
<p><strong>Producers</strong> : Berlin Ballett  at Komische Oper Berlin, the Compagnie Blanca Li Paris, Studio Orta  Paris, la Maison des Arts de Cr&eacute;teil, le Moulin du Roc Niort, l&rsquo;Op&eacute;ra de  Massy, La Caisse des D&eacute;p&ocirc;ts en faveur de la danse, la Direction  R&eacute;gionale des affaires culturelles d&rsquo;Ile de France - Minist&egrave;re de la  Culture et de la Communication.</p>
<p>Borderline is a choreographic project at the  intersection of dance,   music and art, which explores the thin line  between normality and   insanity. Deeply impressed by Lucy and Jorge Orta's project &ldquo;Life Nexus&ldquo;  at the Psychiatric Clinic  Robert Giffard in  Qu&eacute;bec, Blanca Li managed  to work with those two artists for  her own creation. Their creative  trio focused its research on a contemporary madness. Who is really crazy   ? Lunatics walking in the street ? The world itself ?  Always with  humour  and a great sense of comedy, Borderline explores the  numerous  ways of  being "different": from those who indulge in craziness  to  those who  suffer from it. A tragicomic show, oscillating   between  dynamic fits and darker moments of despondency.<br />The  choreography itself is developped from the constraint of objects created  by Lucy and Jorge Orta. The accessories and moves were born at the same  time, during the phase of writing. The theme of constraint is declined  in various ways in every scene of this total performance, structuring  the matter as well as the body, in the rythm of burlesque and reflexive  situations.</p>