Nombrer les étoiles

Nombrer les étoiles is an immersion into a form specific to the Middle Ages, the ballad, a literary and musical genre of great sensitivity. The danced song, an ancestor of kinds to the pop song, contains several stanzas, a chorus but also plenty soul-searching.

Nombrer les étoiles is an album of nine danced songs.

In Nombrer les étoiles, dance and music are intrinsically linked, with the two mediums developing the same compositional structures.

The movement is composed from the rhythm of the poems, the duration of the foot, the word and the verse.

The bodies of the dancers are the emanation of the moods, colours and emotions of the music.

The songs of troubadours and trouvères, compositions by Guillaume de Machaut and Thibaut de Champagne, are performed and sung live by the medieval music ensemble Alla francesca. A sound design by Félix Perdreau based on these materials and the dancers’ breathing is spatialised on stage and in the audience.

Nombrer les étoiles imagines distant and secret worlds, dreams of a haven of peace, adopting beauty as a leitmotif. Shelters of light are built to mark out uncertain landscapes and provide refuge. Dark transformations take place on this journey into the depths of the soul.

Nombrer les étoiles is a poetic bubble, a moment of escape from the world.