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| photo : Jean-Pierre Maurin |
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LET MY JOY REMAIN
If the dancer’s body was a musical instrument…
If the Company Fêtes Galantes was a choreographic orchestra….
A red floor, sparkling, designed to become, under the dancers’ feet, a musical instrument that reveals “glissades”, “tombés”, all kind of “frottés” specific to baroque dance.
Sober costumes allowing the bodies to be seen, a set of hot and luminous colours, playing on harmony, subtle nuances specific to each interpreter. It is a necessary wink to create complicity with the baroque world.
A vast complexity of choreographic architecture built from phrases that are easy to interpret, first together, then in canons, fugues, questions, answers, subjects, counter-subjects.
The extensively researched sound of steps, basis of the choreographic phrase stems from the perfect ensemble towards the greatest of polyphonies.
J.S. Bach’s music then slides into this great choreographic structure designed to welcome it and benefit from its dynamic attitude and plenitude. The music therefore comes as a contrast or an extension of the climates installed by the dance.
Dance is complement, an extension of music. There are moments when only sound from the dancers’ steps follows the movements. It allows the moment when the silent dance melts into the music to be appreciated.
It is a dialogue of pleasure between music and dance, the essential movement with music and the musical quality of dance.
Béatrice Massin
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