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Keep dancing – Danser Encore
The Lyon Opera Ballet will perform soli all over the CN D, in a choreographic circuit resulting from the meeting between one different dancer and one different choreographer for each solo. “Danser Encore” wishes to reflect the diversity of contemporary creation and immerse us into a living creative process for contemporary dance. Initiated in 2020 by Lyon Opera Ballet director Julie Guibert, the “Danser Encore” cycle relies on a desire to showcase the individuality of the company’s dancers and to support choreographic creation in the difficult context of a global pandemic by banking on the fertile dialogue between choreographers and performers. From the creation of tailored soli, “Danser Encore” exposes the team work of two people and highlights how diverse contemporary creation is. After conceiving 13 original soli, the Lyon Opera Ballet will continue the project by creating more pieces that will use all the resources of the body, image and movement. Occupying the entire space of the Centre national de la danse over the course of two days, over 10 soli will be performed in the studios and the Atrium, revealing the fragility, lightness, density and particular grain of each performer and the magnitude of their desire to dance.
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This new work from Marcos Morau/La Veronal for The Lyon Opera pushes the limits of perception, inviting the mind to lose itself in the imagination. In The Theatre and its Double, Antonin Artaud wrote “The mind believes what it sees and does what it believes: that is the secret of fascination.”
The dancer’s body and a cardboard box are linked together in a mysterious and almost hypnotic way. The dancer playfully explores the extremes of gravity and the unknown, showing us just how much fun it can be to lose ourselves in a simulation or lie of our own creation.
The relationship between the body and the object, the inanimate and the living, between what we can and can’t see and between tension and strength, creates a complex interplay that forces the dancer beyond the confines of logic.
Source: programme of the CND
