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Phébus et Borée
Pièce jeune public inspirée d'une fable de Jean de La Fontaine
Phébus et Borée is a dance for young audiences piece inspired by one of Jean de La Fontaine’s fables. It was commissioned to Karine Ponties by Annie Sellem and La petite Fabrique.
Rules of the game: create a two-dancer short piece, in any aesthetic form of your choice (hip hop, ballet, contemporary dance…), lasting between fifteen and twenty minutes. This piece is intended to be played in a variety of settings, indoors, outdoors, schools, theatres…
Karine Ponties picked the “Phoebus and Boreas” fable, where Gods come to life, and the profound bonds between humans and the physics of the world appear. She tackles this fable through the theme of the wind, this instable dynamicity that holds and builds the world at the same time. In its excess, the wind is rage, nowhere yet everywhere at the same time, being born again and again and again…
