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Les Météores
Les Météores (1993) is a choreographic piece by François Raffinot for 9 dancers set to music by Hughes de Courson
It was François Raffinot’s first creation in Le Havre, just after he was appointed as the director of the National Choreographic Centre in 1993.
The piece is a trilogy on the following themes: “exchange and crossing paths, against a backdrop of gambling and war. [It] addresses the love relationships of a series of characters walking a fine line between East and West. Striking a chord with the depicting of lovers always subject to unforeseeable twists of fate, the bodies of 9 dancers (the chorus), 18 extras (Action Parallèle) and 2 children (the Discoboles) evolve in spaces ruled by luck, gambling and chance: from the golf course to tennis, from the tennis court to the billiard table, 3 worlds follow on from one another, where each surface, ever smaller, conjures up the others and represents, by means of decreasing scales, the same areas intended for the meeting of 5 couples, 5 duos with very different choreographic styles, around which the entire trilogy revolves spasmodically (extract from the programme for the Châteauvallon Dance Festival).
The piece was created as part of the Châteauvallon Dance Festival, on July 2nd, 1993.
The piece was also presented at the Maison de la danse de Lyon on November 11th, 1993, and at the Le Volcan theatre, Le Havre, from December 16th to 18th, 1993.
The director Michel Le Bayon monitored the creation of this piece. He reproduces its progress in his documentary États des lieux.
