Le Spectre

Une vision contemporaine du légendaire “Spectre de la rose”

A contemporary vision of the legendary Le spectre de la rose. This is the mise en abyme of an image so compelling it results in obsession. I want to suggest, not without humour, an intense and tormented interior journey, stimulated and even struck by memory, image. In order to steal from time and history too obvious an adherence of the project, I wanted, in addition to the purely choreographic and plastic new reading, the score to be completely rewritten on the themes of the original, with a burlesque allusion to film music. The original version then becomes in turn its own memory: another mise en abyme. Memory and desire are the essential driving forces behind this “adventure”.

The scenography is a reduction of the original proposal, and this room that the dream will enter is also the antechamber of the imaginary, that inner space, in the hollow of memory. Of this room suggested by luminous edges, only the idea of volume and space remains, an open box (Pandora’s?) where memories and desires flow away and peter out. Of the window that introduces the spectre, a gateway to the hereafter, only the white rectangle of the screen remains. On this virgin space, we see metaphorical reminiscences break through and blossom, composing a parallel poetry. The screen window, is an interface between the visible and the unconscious, where a virtual universe, instantaneous and temporary, takes shape. This version proposes both a sketch and an extension of the original work, glazed with a more abstract contemporaneity.

Source CCN – Ballet de Lorraine 2003 – 2004