So schnell (1ère version)

Striking piece, masterfully prepared for the immensity of the opera trays, it will be revised two years later by the choreographer.

Composed for the Bagouet company and extended to the interpreters engaged in vocational training that the company welcomed at that time, So Schnell is a work commissioned for the inauguration of the vast Corum de Montpellier. While this 1990 version is less polished than that of 1992, and the capture less erudite than in Charles Picq’s adaptation (see vol. 21), these images better reveal the gigantic dimensions of the choreographic writing.

Impressive but never monumental, and with sweeps of the paintbrush throwing bright colours through space, never hesitating to introduce a lone female dancer onto the bare and silent stage, here is, as it appears to us, the writing of So Schnell. More fragile, and, to a certain extent, more flat – like the settings of Christine Le Moigne, inspired by Roy Lichtenstein – than the second version, this first So Schnell yet already contains within it the same ambition: to create an immense dance where each interpreter, nevertheless, has their place; let the “space be invaded by forces that leave some traces” (D. Bagouet), while at the same time chiselling this great construction with profound details, worthy of a great goldsmith.

Source : Isabelle Ginot