Larmes blanches

In Larmes blanches Angelin Preljocaj made the choice of virtuosity. The terse gestures deploy their energy in small volumes, require maximum speed and sudden stops, as well as a faultless memory. The phrases danced in unison forbid the slightest shift in rhythm, amplitude or space. Bodies and gestures are duplicated, but it is the antagonisms that surprise: the asymmetry of costumes, the tug-of-war between rounded figures and oblique gestures, the opposition between the harpsicord and the electroacoustics, between the white lace and the black leather. Yet the dance imbued with baroque bursts forbids all joy, and the flesh confronted with the terseness of the plucked strings cannot languish. However, the few moments when tenderness timidly appears stirs the nostalgia for a place where emotion was possible:  the mechanical aspect is there only to mask absence, and the multiplication of bodies performing the same gestures outlines, en abyme, the reflection of a forgotten world.  

Source : Preljocaj