Creation: Visuel Affiche ©Frédéric Iovino
Type: Dance
Public: Tout public
Direction: Carolyn Carlson
Distribution: Change selon le programme
Choreography: Carolyn Carlson
The Show
Carolyn Carlson has never stopped going from group creation and ballet to soli, either for herself or for dancers who inspire her profoundly. To her, it constitutes the essential form of the choreographic work. It is a moment of direct link to dance, a possibility to go back to oneself and a search for the ultimate tone of the unique and pure gesture. Irremediably the choreographer goes back to the solo, as a quest for her own essence. In an ever more talkative and individualistic world, society suffers from our incapacity to express our inner humanity. Dance, and the solo in particular, offer a visual communication through emotion and perception, without the deflection of the spoken word.
THE SEVENTH MAN
Inspired by « The Seventh » by the poet of the Hungarian Uprising Attila JÓZSEF, The Seventh man embodies the breaks, reconstructions and promises of the present that every human being experiment all along their lives.
THE SEVENTH WOMAN
Carolyn Carlson offers a sensitive and totally reworked variation of the opening of The Seventh man, adapted to a woman. As an introduction to Riccardo Meneghini’s solo, Sara Orselli embodies the inner lights that originate from our disruptions with grace and subtlety. Calling the infinite in each gesture, the dancer offers us a brief moment of mindfulness.
The flowers are all droping
in the garden make your choice
before the fall
Carolyn Carlson, Brins d’herbe, Actes Sud, 2011
MANDALA
Mandala is an incarnation of the human heartbeat, a constituent of the space universally shared by every being, from the beginning to the end of our existence.
WINDWOMAN
With Wind woman, Carolyn Carlson questions transient feelings. With Céline Maufroid, who has interpreted her creations for several years now, she has started listening to the breaths surrounding us and those coming from within our bodies. Wind woman invites everyone to listen, to feel the world’s breath as well as its own’s.
WINDWOMEN
Either it is soft or extremely powerful, wind flows without lasting. The choreographer chose to explore all its aspects by turning this solo created in 2011 for dancer Celine Maufroid, into a duet with dancer Sara Simeoni. The two performers follow one another in their singular performances.
IN THE NIGHT
In the night, a thousand luminous mirrors tread on our inner darkness. An open door to the mysteries of reflection.
A DEAL WITH INSTINCT (Provisional Title)
For this 2023 creation, Carolyn Carlson has chosen to work with Yutaka Nakata, who has been collaborating with her for 15 years. Drawing her inspiration from nature, Zen Buddhism and the martial arts, the choreographer wishes to evoke the animal instinct that lies dormant in each of us and the symbolism of the mountain. Playing on the energies and principles of mindfulness, Yutaka, experienced in Tai-chi and Qi Gong techniques, will invoke the powers of the tiger or the snake to represent the search for balance in the instability of today’s world.
Pictures
Press
Islands at Cankarjev Dom de Ljubljana. Interviews Sara Orselli and Riccardo Meneghini
Critic of Prologue & The Seventh man by Nicolas Brizault in unfauteuilpourlorchestre.com
