Sylphs
Cecilia Bengolea and François Chaignaud revisit the romantic figure of the sylph, that immaterial being, the object of a genuine literary infatuation in the 18th century and a choreographic one in the 19th century. The fruit of human imagination, the sylph was conceived as a medium between two worlds, that of the dead and the living, that of
fantasies and reality, of the possible and the impossible. Using a mechanism that allows them to undergo the experience of reducing vital functions to their absolute minimum, Cecilia Bengolea and François Chaignaud offer us disturbing images on our possible annihilation and rebirth.
Distribution
conception: Cecilia Bengolea and François Chaignaud
lighting: Erik Houllier
costumes: Sothean Nhieim
collaboration for dramaturgy: Berno Polzer
with: Cecilia Bengolea, François Chaignaud, Chiara Gallerani, Lenio Kaklea
Production
production: Vlovajob Pru.
coproduction: Le Quartz Scène nationale de Brest, Le Merlan Scène nationale de Marseille, Centre chorégraphique de Montpellier Languedoc-Roussillon, Centre chorégraphique de Franche-Comté-Belfort, La Ménagerie de Verre dans le cadre du Studiolab, Théâtre de l'Usine (Genève)
