Amants d'un jour (Les)

A woman wipes some glasses while far away a couple is dancing sensually.

A woman shines another glass, while, in the distance, an embracing couple dances languidly. Hugging, rolling on the ground and then, suddenly, welcomed by a suspended bed. We are far from the interior tempo proposed by Edith Piaf, whom we easily imagine, in her black dress and hands outstretched, recounting the love story with its tragic end of this couple who kill themselves in a hotel room.

Source : Ministère de la Culture

The idea has all it takes to please: with the complicity of a director, a choreographer plays along by masterfully setting to dance a melody taken from the repertoire of French song, where, most often, poetry rhymes with humour and tenderness. While none of these dances resembles a video-clip supposed to illustrate the song, they are always an original choreographic proposal. A contemporary version of the old “chansons de geste” (French epic poems), they allow access, in just a few minutes, to the highly diversified universes of the choreographers. Take a song, its verses and its chorus, the interpreter’s tone of voice, the subject or the atmosphere evoked, and see what images, colours, figures and rhythms dance could give them.

Source : Fabienne Arvers