• From Tuesday 2 to Saturday 6 February 2010 - 20h30

It is common to mistake time with the mere representation of it. Mathilde Monnier’s Tempo 76 was already a wide and impish composition about a dismantled collective time. For her new project she once more takes hold of a ballet’s figure through which she can move us, because it deals with the question of time. The choreographer cites The Death of the Swan, a spectre etched on all our memories. To her, the piece reveals a breach in the history of dance. A woman dances solo for barely three minutes but it’s a dance trying endlessly not to end, abstract, uncluttered, and almost left to the performer’s improvisation. From there she launches into a contemporary piece, danced as a group, and also aiming at going beyond all endings. This is achieved through a composition of repetitions, discontinuities and overlappings danced to the sound of a combination of embedded original tunes.
 

Gérard Mayen