Wu Wei

Documentary on “Wu Wei” : “There was that day when he asked Ben Chuan and the others what disgusted them about China today. There was that silence.” A silent dialogue is therefore presented in order to finally speak and write towards the unknown.

Wu Wei (the “non-doing” for Taoists) is an encounter. The meeting between Yoann Bourgeois and China. In Dalian, the juggling artist has created for eleven artists (the same  ones who had already cooperated with Aurélien Bory in The Seven Planks  of Cunning) a particularly sober show highlighting some snippets of each  person’s life in the form of ‘a poem. Wu  Wei or the art of movement, one would say after seeing it, also  concretizes the meeting between two cultures, and especially their  antagonistic relationship to time. On stage, a small baroque orchestra interprets Vivaldi’s Les Quatre Saisons. The whole is successful, pleasant and rich in meaning.

Source : Stéphanie Barioz, Telerama