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Floréal
Thierry De Mey
Pièce de gestes
Thierry De Mey
Tippeke
Thierry De Mey
Dom Svobode
Iztok Kovač
Musique de tables
Thierry De Mey
From Inside – Sicilia, Vie di Gibellina
Thierry De Mey
Top Shot
Anne Teresa De Keersmaeker
Rémanences
Thierry De Mey
Rosas danst Rosas
Anne Teresa De Keersmaeker
21 études à danser
Michèle Anne De Mey
Light Music
Thierry De Mey
One Flat Thing, reproduced
William Forsythe
From Inside – Kinshasa, city on the go
Thierry De Mey
Love Sonnets
Michèle Anne De Mey
Fase
Anne Teresa De Keersmaeker
Prélude à la mer
Anne Teresa De Keersmaeker
One flat thing, reproduced
William Forsythe
Ma mère l’Oye
Thierry De Mey
Bluebeard
Thierry De Mey
Ma mère l’Oye
Thierry De Mey
Mother Goose
Thierry De Mey
Light Music
Pushing back the frontier between movements that produce sound and the movements of dance, Light Music transfigures those of a performer confronting his audience alone.
with Jean Geoffroy, conductor/soloist
“To play Light Music is to rediscover oneself, to relearn simple movements in all their power and, above all, their fragility.Hand gestures, body movements, a line or a curve can say it all.A rustle, a breath, and everything falls into place; beating of the torn heart.”Threads drawn out” into “infinities”, from “chaos” to the “dancing stars” as they rise, a single possible end: “Silence must be”. Like an echo of our anxieties, our doubts…”
Jean Geoffroy
Pushing back the frontier between movements that produce sound and the movements of dance, Light Music transfigures those of a performer confronting his audience alone. The piece makes play with the poetic duality of movement: permanence of hands given form by light ; remanence of imprints – ephemeral, ethereal, sensual, sharp, percussive – projected on the screen. Movement and music correlate, collide, generate and suspend reciprocally, bearing us away towards chaos, and of course towards the silence, that must be.
Through his diffusion on stage, Light Music is continually improving in order to free the performer from the constraints of the seizing of movements. In this way, he acquires a better autonomy of interpretation and a maximum of responsability in the management of audio and musical triggers. The audio samples have also been record again with the percussionist Jean Geoffroy on the basis of acoustic textures.
Thierry de Mey, conception and composition
Jean Geoffroy, performer, conductor/soloist
Christophe Lebreton, conception of the interactive systems (Grame)
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Production Grame, national center for musical creation in Lyon
Coproduction Charleroi Danses, Centre chorégraphique de la Fédération Wallonie-Bruxelles
Collaboration Gmem, national center for musical creation in Marseille
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Gmem-French Cultural Ministry commission
First performance Musiques en Scène Biennale, Lyon, March 2004
