Les Beaux Jours

Les Beaux Jours, a solo inspired by the work of the painter Balthus, demands precision in its lines, poses and quality of movement in order to move from one tableau to the next, from one woman to the next.

Les Beaux Jours, a solo inspired by the work of the painter Balthus, demands precision in its lines, poses and quality of movement in order to move from one tableau to the next, from one woman to the next. Thirty-two tableaux by Balthus are inhabited and explored by the performer, forming the choreographic score.

A meditative and sculptural piece, the solo endeavours to convey an atmosphere. With no set, it stakes everything on an incarnation of the Balthusian aesthetic. The motif is soon forgot- ten and all that survives is an adventure of the body as it grapples with its slowness, its con- tact with the floor and its re-launch. If Balthus is “betrayed” at all, it is for a dance which accepts that the only explanations it owes are to itself.

“Droulers is a stylish man, an alchemist of movement, an allusive person who, like the great conjurers, prefers to conceal a lengthy, patient apprenticeship beneath the subtlest agility, who prefers not
to firmly establish something but to suggest everything surreptitiously.”

Source : La Libre Belgique