Impressions, nouvel accrochage

The power of images

Plunging into painting to create dance… The choreographer Herman Diephuis, an expert in embodying images, which he draws from sources ranging from ancient painting to photography, likes to create stories by animating bodies with an ever so delicate grace. This duet immerses the audience in the multiple possibilities that exist in a relationship between two people. We witness a couple undergoing magnificent transformations, the beauty of their encounter so masterfully expressed by the performers through differences and complicity.

Just as Impressionist painting broke away from the classical rules of the Beaux-Arts, the two characters start from an academic existence to gravitate, in small touches, towards more everyday realities. In the process, other facets of the bond that unites them are revealed, along with other possibilities for listening to the other and other energies. A journey from the nineteenth century to the present day, in which the classical dance evolves into krump, and where even Debussy becomes electro!

Nathalie Yokel, July 2020