• Tuesday 1 December 2009 - 20h30
• From Thursday 3 to Saturday 5 December 2009 - 20h30

Gilles Jobin’s artistic progression is an unusual one. He never ceases evading easy routines and turning off in unexpected directions. Meanwhile, he patiently weaves the mesh of his unique work. The Swiss choreographer is fond of shunning predictable motions as well as anticipated compositions. The human body, space geometry, the bulk of a moving presence, mystery, the tension between sensuality and abstraction, such are the components of his style, imprinted by the violent impacts of our modern era. In Text to Speech, the dancers’ flesh resonated with exploding war information and all movement was freed from the weight of words. Now Gilles Jobin focuses his research on motion continuum and choreographic substance. Black Swan is a quartet whose title is borrowed from Karl Popper’s philosophical works. The piece meanders between conjectures and denials, stylized movements and a peculiar chaos. And it daringly imposes a child’s powerful capacity to marvel.

Gwenola David