Solo

Philippe Decouflé dances here in the first person singular, as “I”. Yet he does not choreograph his ego. He offers fragments of existence and of sensations where each spectator may conjure up a portrait. His “Solo” is an “I” that swings back and forth between himself and us.

His life? His work? We don’t really care. The “Solo” is slightly, but just very slightly autobiographical. Yet it speaks to our human hearts. Imagine ten fingers filmed in close-up on a table, two wandering hands that twirl around and set the beat. It doesn’t seem like much in writing, but on the stage it is so intense that several spectators fainted. Imagine a myriad of cameras and screens kaleidoscoping Decouflé infinitely, going on and on and on. He is transformed into a water ballet master where he forms, by himself alone, the astounding flock of beauties in swimming costumes. Wait, that’s just the beginning, the show goes on… “I’m full of doubt”, explains the choreographer upon the Solo opening. A specialist on the question and on the subject, René Descartes, said before him: “I am not the assemblage of members called the human body”. I dance therefore I am, is an undeniable contribution from Decouflé to philosophy.

Source : Maison de la Danse performance program