They are in the autumn of their life and are celebrating, in their way, spring. The spring that Stravinsky composed in 1913 and of which Pierre Boulez unquestionably delivered one of its most beautiful versions in 1969, with the Cleveland Orchestra. Under the eye of an athletic sneaker wearing Chronos whose strides beat out the seconds, 20 men and women, from 60 to 87 years old, set themselves in motion. With their anonymous and ageing bodies, they revisit this major piece of the 20th-century repertory, questioning the figure of time inside a simple choreographic line: the circle. Running or walking, but without ever abandoning the link that connects them, they infinitely recompose the spiral from which a thousand and one images spring forth, like so many rites and narratives, childish farandoles and funeral processions, ends and beginnings. Far from the cult of performance, in an assumed and claimed fragility, the perpetual cycle of life is played out before us. The movement of these amateur dancers mesmerizes us while Stravinsky's score, in its exceptional powerful writing, receives and carries aloft the bursts and breaths of this incredibly lively community: beings, without any artifice, who give their all in the present. Dancing dreams, we might equally say, like a nod to the choreographer Pina Bausch.
Distribution
a play of Thierry Thieû Niang and Jean-Pierre Moulères
created with an danced by Odette Bernard, Thérèse Caltaux, Françoise Coulombel, Alain Crépin, Emmanuel Cuchet, Maria Fontaneda, Suzy Fraiz, Jeanine Gevaudan, Anik Grell, Andrée Hagege, Lucienne Le Bouard, Geneviève Loiseleur, Josette Orsucci, Anne-Marie Paillard, Claude Panaye, Jacqueline Pignon, Daniel Piovanacci, Marie-Georges Pruneau, Maryse Robion-Lamotte, Aline Ruggieri
Production
production La Comédie de Valence Centre dramatique national
avec le soutien du Ballet national de Marseille Centre chorégraphique national et du studio Michel Kéléménis à Marseille