Psaume #3

The third part will be in the company of Ali Moini, an Iranian artist whom we no longer present. The confrontation of this third look at the question of the sacred and the religious, will close this Psalms cycle and bring a different color to the two previous creations.
The work will start in September 2018 and will end in January 2019 as part of the CNDC Solo Festival of Angers.

Source: James Carlès

More information: www.jamescarles.com

A word about “contemporary poetics of relationship”

A psalm is a poetic text composed of several verses from four main literary genres. The word comes from the ancient Greek, psalmos, which indicates a tune played on the psaltery.
It was used in the Septuagint translation to translate the Hebrew word mizmôr, which designates a religious song accompanied by music which is attested 57 times in the book of psalms. They can take different characters: more or less laudatory, intimate, combative, repentant, etc.
With Psalms, I would like to explore and “grasp” the multiple meanings of relationships as they are played out today in society.
What is sacred? What is sacred today? How does the meaning of the sacred change from personal (ontological) or collective trajectories?
What is my approach to the sacred? What is sacred to me? What am I desecrating? What are my sacrileges? So many questions that inspire me.
At this stage of my personal and professional journey, I feel the desire to write contemporary psalms. It will not be a sung poetic verb, but a danced poetic flow, on the relationship (which “re” binds us).

Source: James Carlès

More information: www.jamescarles.com