Eikon [duo Faune doré]

Michael is no longer there, all that remains is the sense of wonder of a dreamlike world populated by dancing phantoms, look-alikes that he has filled our imaginations with. All that remains is the sense of wonder before the planetary icon.

Michael is no longer there, all that remains is the sense of wonder of a dreamlike world populated by dancing phantoms, look-alikes that he has filled our imaginations with. All that remains is the sense of wonder before the planetary icon. His absence from the stage, this emptiness is illustrated here by the absence of this music overflowing with memory, especially when you wish to bring the uniqueness of the artist out from behind the clichés and fantasies. This absence in the production portrays the uniqueness of a presence, a presence that the choreographer and her team imagined, the aesthetics of a passing, a disappearance. In particular this pleasure of dance that burns in old and young alike, that creates these emotional urges that would be the symptom of the contemporary individual viewed in the multitude.

So, who would this creature be? A brilliant artist or the absolute masterpiece of show business? Our pleasure is also to enter this post-humanity that wishes to re-enchant the world, where utopias failed: to recreate, on Earth, the green paradise of our childhood loves.

Some may say that the king of pop is the symptom of ultra-liberalism which would have reduced the individual to just ‘be’ instinctually. Let’ leave the question open. All that remains is the pleasure of this dance that invites our icons from Nijinsky to James Brown and brings together their aesthetics in a single electric current.

An icon cannot be easily defined, mystery is her/his irradiating charm. And our pleasure!

Michel Jacques

Press quotes

Interview with Raphaëlle Delaunay on The Dancing Plague website

Updating: April 2012