Husaïs - Solstice

Depuis 2010, le remontage que proposent Héla Fattoumi et Éric Lamoureux de deux duos emblématiques de leur répertoire – Husaïs et Solstice – s’inscrit dans le désir de réappropriation et de transmission d’un matériau de création.

SOLSTICE (remix)

Choreography Héla Fattoumi/Éric LamoureuxPerformed by Marine Chesnais & Moustapha ZianeHusaïsOriginal Cast Héla Fattoumi and Éric Lamoureux (1988) Lighting Yves Godin Music Éric Lamoureux Excerpts from Grieg Peer Gynt, Kreidler, Sébastien Roux Costume Maryline LafaySolstice (remix)Original Cast Héla Fattoumi and Éric Lamoureux (1996) Lighting Xavier Lazarini Music Éric Lamoureux Costume Maryline Lafay

Husaïs (re)creation 2008

Production Compagnie Fattoumi-Lamoureux (1988) Centre Chorégraphique National de Caen/Basse-Normandie (2010).Prix SACD pour la première oeuvre – Rencontres Chorégraphiques Internationales de Bagnolet (1990) Lauréats concours interprètes de la Ville de Paris (1987) Prix des Nouveaux Talents de la SACD (1991).Solstice (remix) (re)creation 2010Production Centre Chorégraphique National de Caen/Basse-Normandie.Solstice (remix) is an adaptation of Solstice, which has been created by Héla Fattoumi et Éric Lamoureux en 1996 and produced by compagnie Fattoumi-Lamoureux, le Centre Culturel Municipal – Danse Émoi – Ville de Limoges, Springdance Festival – Utrecht (Pays-Bas), l’Hippodrome – Scène nationale de Douai, Les Gémeaux – Scène nationale de Sceaux.

Husaïs set the decisive themes of Héla Fattoumi and Eric Lamoureux’s choreographic approach, stemming from according their two personalities. Fine-tuning two imaginative worlds, as Christine Roquet writes in Fattoumi-Lamoureux, Danser l’entre l’autre, “presupposes no ‘harmony’, but operates also in friction, tension – and certainly, equally, a shared softness.” Husaïs is constructed from the interplay of waiting, drawing together, brushing together, separating, and infectiousness – inscribing two dance scores for soloists, each necessary to the other and yet independent. From this relationship emanates a sort of tension where the exploration of contrary elements or events imposes a quartering that leads not to rupture, rending, or separation, but to the resonance of this link between them. The dancing emerges minimalistic and virtuoso, soothing and spurting forth, fluid and syncopated, it draws angular paths, chiselled trajectories that seem to arise from inner surges to create an experience of otherness.

Solstice (remix)

How to express in words what urges us on towards this duet?We could say that our intuitive conviction in needing to do it is enough by itself, that it will allow us to continue to trace our path through a forest of possibilities… But we still wouldn’t have said anything! So perhaps we can try to share the obsessions that have haunted us since beginning this work. What takes place between two beings? What presence for the other? How to allow space for the sensitive intelligence of these bodies to bear witness to that which is intimate? We should not be afraid of shattering the hasty attempts at giving form that reassure us but smother the hints of life at their core.What else have we said?There is a man and a woman. From this binary relationship is born all the complexity of the relationship with the other – and therefore with oneself – seen through the prism of extraneous subjectivities. There are these two solitudes that we must refine so they can better approach one another. These two beings together or alone can play, suddenly one stops… They can love and struggle… One can watch the other live…In short, lots of simplicity coming together and pulling apart over the course of time and its ellipses.Is there a place for coming together? Is there a coming together between two beings?