Opus 07

Opus 07 resembles an intimate prayer. Superbly danced, James Carlès testifies there to a moving sincerity. Far from any proclaimed identity claim, it can on the contrary take as a starting point its African roots and by its years of “modern dancer”.

After about twenty parts, Opus 07, seventh shutter of a project of Decalogue started in 2000, is the quintessence of the choreographic approach of James Carlès and brand the result of a long choreographic and personal research task: “Opus 07 is for me the found appeasing, a page which is closed and a news which opens… the end of my work on the rupture and the identity. Today the way appears clearer to me…. ”“Opus 07 fact part of these marvellous solos which are connected with an autobiographical work: for Carolyn Carlson it is “Blue Lady”, for Marie-Claude Pietragalla it is “Don’ T look back”, for Benjamin Lamarche it is “Icare”, each one delivering a share to it of oneself. Opus 07 resembles an intimate prayer. Superbly danced, James Carlès testifies there to a moving sincerity. Far from any proclaimed identity claim, it can on the contrary take as a starting point its African roots and by its years of “modern dancer” to reach a universality; so many heterogeneous elements which risked the collision find on the contrary a harmony here and form a sometimes pleasant unit, painful, but always logical walls and without dissonances. “Sonia Shoonejans – Ballet 2000, March 2006James Carlès associates with the dance and the music two other “body-partners” to whom it gives a dominating place in this solo: scenography and the light. Far from being additional, they allow the choreographer and the dancer to confront themselves with new constraints, to work out a new form, to build and of déconstruire space…CREDITS

Duration: 55 minutesChoreography and interpretation: James Carlès Artistic plate: 1 dancer and 3 managersMusic:  Vs Price and James Carlès according to Albert Ayler Scenography:  Rachel GarciaCostume:   James Carlès Light creation:  Boris Molinié