Prémonitions [extrait]

Premonitions tries to say that art, gold and silver – and, sometimes, dance as well – can bring with them questions or even messages – coded messages or flows of emotions, can be about very serious matters (or, for that matter, not serious at all, in homage to Jean Carmet)… There is always this idea that art should be neither too dogmatic nor too “politico-social”. It should be a wish to be listening to the world, to feel alive in relation to current affairs, but to find a way of expressing oneself which is slightly eccentric, slightly to one side, sometimes below, sometimes above, often between brackets, and always at the margins. With a trump card – an image-rich, symbolic and impressionistic way of saying things. Dance seems to be more flexible because of this – because it is not forced to state anything directly. In this way, it is similar to music. We aren’t at the theatre, we are at the theatre, we aren’t at the theatre, we are dancing at the theatre. Borrowing, squatting… Where are we now, with our snippets of phrases and our secrets?