Cascade

Recorded at the Centre national de la danse in Pantin 14 March 2013

Precise, elegant and expressive, and funny too, the dance of Cecile Loyer is full of conflicting states, oscillating between abstraction and theatricality, reserve and excess. The choreographer, who has already fused dance with other worlds – musical, literary, even cinematographic – here works with the double bassist and composer Joelle Léandre, a virtuosic, iconoclastic artist, recognised in particular for her collaborations with poets, directors and choreographers.

“Cascade” is presented as a proliferation of signs, movements, colours and sounds which accumulate, multiply, condense, interweave, come undone, play and challenge each other in the hands of a surprising duo. Order and disorder are connected in a multitude of tableaux, a succession of surges.

Updating: May 2013