Soleils

Pierre Droulers, one of the leading figures of Belgian dance, is a choreographer who composes his pieces according to a mostly sensory logic. Treating both bodies and movement, as well as objects, sounds, light and space, as plastic textures, he sculpts unique stage objects in which the empty contrasts with the full, presence with absence, life with death, intoxication with melancholy. For his new creation, it is, philosophically and physically, the light that he summons to the stage: light soaring up to the incandescent ecstasy of the Sun but also light crouching in the darkness;  the light diffracted in matter but also the light radiating from bodies. He revists the burning energy of rituals and carnival processions. Set in a stage space of enthralling beauty, ”Soleils” reasserts the fire of life faced with the grimace of history. 

“Gathering together dancers, stealers of energy, birds. From the swiftest to the slowest, bearers of strange rites, of secrets. As one, as many, they come together before they separate. Constantly on the move, they light up the world with their glow and their lanterns. Where does this light come from? Where does it go? Dazzling flashes, dwindling, transparent, the bodies circulate and let their movements pierce. The dance progresses until the fires go out. In this outpouring of rhythms, outbursts, and sounds, a shadow is cast. The memory of a world that is no more, a threat. That of a tension at work, like a bridge suspended between day and night. »