Les inconsolés

The dance Les Inconsolés takes place in the margins, on the  edges, like a search for an imperceptible future or perhaps an attempt  (or the temptation of) an impossible figuration. How to express a body  on stage? And how to bring out, above and beyond flesh, all that the  body conveys – what it has experienced, gone through and been overcome  by? Exposed in fragments, in pieces, or gesticulating like marionnettes  in a danse macabre, the three performers seek to summon up ‘inerasable  instants that last for ever’. Playing on the movement between centre and  periphery, shadow and light, face and mask, they hug each other, clash,  exchange gestures, transmit states or grapple with excitement, desire,  violence and loss. Something moves between them, something that persists  – death, perhaps, or one of its figurations. At the frontier of  statuary, of the tale, of the sadomasochistic ritual, of lovemaking, Les Inconsolés  forms a choreographic poem that is close to ancient mystery: a dance on  the verge of obliteration, where Eros and Thanatos become naked.