• Wednesday 9 February 2011 - 20h30
• Thursday 10 February 2011 - 20h30
• Friday 11 February 2011 - 20h30
• Saturday 12 February 2011 - 20h30
• Sunday 13 February 2011 - 15h00

The flamboyant 70's bring forth idols, icons and festivities, all insouciantly ephemeral. Along with a craving for immensity, the ocean.

Nasser Martin-Gousset is deliberately pop-oriented, at ease with chic or romantic tendencies, utterly rock-minded, inevitably glamorous. He is forever hunting for dreamy icons floating at the back of our memories, misty and evanescent images from times past, yet curled up at the very heart of our society. An exceptional dancer and unique choreographer, Nasser Martin-Gousset has followed his own route, away from the austere minimalist trend and from the pretence of conceptual art. With him, movement and scenery answer each other; propagation occurs in nervous starts, lurching or fluidly undulating hips; suddenly the move is petrified in mid-course. After Peplum (2006), a venomous epic of Hollywoodian passions, after Comedy (2008), a festive incursion into the restless insouciance of the 60's, Pacific dives into the heart of the 70's, undermined by the whole variety of heedless excesses. Meshing together pure dance, radiant atmospheres and a cinematographic grammar, Martin-Gousset explores what is beneath the surface and unfolds the action like a thriller: a blue immensity, the stillness of the day, bodies lying on the beach… James Bond's shadow lurks on the horizon.
 
Gwénola David