Heart's Labyrinth (version studio)

Version studio, with no light, no set et no costume, presented during  “La Fabrique” : workshops, repertory, video installation and posters  with the Ballet de l’Opéra de Lyon on 10 December 2016 at the CN D in  Pantin.

Question to Yorgos Loukos, Director of the Ballet de l’Opéra de Lyon (2014).

What is your aim in showing Heart’s Labyrinth by Jiří Kylián, a piece from 1984?
When I was deciding on the programme, I immediately thought of this  little-known piece, a very strange ballet that Kylián himself had  removed from his repertoire for years because it was tied to a tragedy in his company, which I won’t go into here. For thirty years, I’ve been  thinking that it was time to show this work again, with his consent. And, as always with Kylián, this dance is extraordinarily fluid, with  simple yet sophisticated movements with a purity that we rarely see  elsewhere.
Performing a Kylián piece makes real sense, especially these days when troupes are handed over to choreographers who use them  to show their works but who have no knowledge of the rest of the repertoire. It’s strange to see that, in the theatre, directors stage  Ibsen and Tchekhov, but in dance, repertoire is under-appreciated. I always wonder, what would become of the history of dance it weren’t for a company like the Ballet de l’Opéra de Lyon and a few others, though  there are not many of us left.

Source: program of the Biennale de la danse – Lyon 2014