La Cloche de Verre

The richness of the gesture, the generosity of the writing where femininity – sanctified or demonic – is sovereign, the choreographer Maryse Delente is inspirited by pure dance, in a lyrical and expressionist vein. “A Cloche de verre is a hothouse for maturing…”: Maryse Delente encountered the world of Sylvia Plath, a young American writer who tragically passed away at the beginning of the 1960s. The words that she used to try and exorcize emotions, fears, confusion, the heavy and distressing void, the suffocating atmosphere that submerged her, triggered images that have gone on to nourish this new creation. The choreographer slides in under the tormented poet’s “dome of distress” to create her own glass dome (la cloche de verre). Transparency, a closed space, flapping water, five feminine figures, beautiful and heartrending naiads, dance on stage and through image, to the rhythm of Gorecki’s partition that enshrouds the whole performance with an intensely poetic and dramatic atmosphere.

Source : Théâtre de Vienne