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Meg Stuart, Simone Aughterlony, Benoît Lachambre: three choreographers welcome three incurable patients in the Théâtre de la Monnaie in Brussels. Backstage, far from daily life, three danced dialogues begin: each will only happen once. Once the initial fears are overcome, grief turns into an apotheosis.
Before We Go is a film like no other. Developed with help from a group of musicians, dancers and actors who accompany Jorge León throughout his career, it is a proper choreographic and musical creation. But instead of being delivered on stage, it is targeted at cinema, in a somehow baroque documentary. A troubling feeling of immediacy lurks the footage. Through dance obviously, but also through the presence of these three characters, who soon will disappear. The proximity of death, worrying and painful at first, slowly transforms into a celebration of life. Bodies freed from gravity, traded skeleton costume; shamanic visions which, with help from dance and craftmanship, become rituals, symbolic acts that keep the dread away and fan the flames of every life.
(Sylvain Maestraggi)
Prix Renaud-Victor at the FID-Marseille 2014, ex-aequo with Ce qu’il reste de la folie (What remains from Madness) by Joris Lachaise.
