Neige
2009 - Director : De Mey, Michèle Anne
Choreographer(s) : De Mey, Michèle Anne (Belgium)
Present in collection(s): Numeridanse.tv , Charleroi danses [2005-2016]
Video producer : Charleroi Danses
Neige
2009 - Director : De Mey, Michèle Anne
Choreographer(s) : De Mey, Michèle Anne (Belgium)
Present in collection(s): Numeridanse.tv , Charleroi danses [2005-2016]
Video producer : Charleroi Danses
Neige
"It is white. So it is poetry. A poetry of great purity. It freezes nature and protects it. So it is a painting. The most delicate painting of winter. It is continually changing. So it is a calligraphy. There are ten thousand ways of writing the word snow. It is a slippery surface. So it is a dance. On snow any man can believe he is a tightrope walker. It turns into water. So it is music. In spring, it turns rivers and streams into symphonies of white notes."
Maxence Fermine, Snow
Carried by Beethoven's Symphony No.7, Neige is the lunar counterpart of Sinfonia Eroica. A work of maturity and contemplation. A dreamlike odyssey into immaculate expanses where enchantment fights it to the death. In the infinite content of a magnificent set design, weird beings wander around in the grip of violent feelings, doubt and finiteness. In the course of a subtle choreography outlined by the hollows beneath incessantly falling elements, they tell of burying, mourning and the loss of illusions.
De Mey, Michèle Anne
This has been a fantastic year for her. Kiss & Cry, an original stage object summoning up object theatre, music, words and nanochoreographies for four hands and dealing with the memory of feelings of love, has won unanimous international acclaim. People have emerged from the show overwhelmed and talking about their own emotional stories. She and Jaco Van Dormael have created it with a group of artists, making it a very personal experience since feelings of love, this thread running through her work, are in a way sublimated here: the film-maker is none other than her partner. Powerful music, telling of the affair from its fickle beginnings to the final split, is another constant in her work and woven into her choreographic universe: Beethoven’s 3rd Symphony in Sinfonia Eroica, the 7th in Neige and the Lamento d’Arianna in her latest piece, a solo she is creating specially for one of her faithful performers. All in all another declaration of love.
De Mey, Michèle Anne
Neige
Artistic direction / Conception : Michèle Anne De Mey, Grégory Grosjean, Sylvie Olivé, Nicolas Olivier
Choreography : Michèle Anne De Mey
Choreography assistance : Grégory Grosjean
Interpretation : Gabriella Iacono, Kung Hee Woo, Ilse Ghekiere, François Brice, Leif Federico Firnhaber, Samuel Lefeuvre
Set design : Sylvie Olivé
Text : Ivo Ghizzardi
Additionnal music : Ludwig Von Beethoven 7e Symphonie (II mouvement/Allegretto) / Robert Schumann Beethoven Etudes
Lights : Nicolas Olivier
Costumes : Sylvie Olivé, Michèle Anne De Mey, Estelle Bibbo
Technical direction : Equipe technique à la création Bruno Olivier, Remy Nelissen, Maurizio Pipitone, Anne Masset
Sound : Dominique Warnier, Raphaelle Latini
Production / Coproduction of the choreographic work : Production Charleroi Danses, Centre chorégraphique de la Fédération Wallonie-Bruxelles Co-production Les Théâtres de la ville de Luxembourg / Festival de Danse de Cannes / Théâtre de Namur / Maison de la Culture d'Amiens Avec le soutien du Ministère de la Communauté française Wallonie-Bruxelles - Service de Danse / WBI (Wallonie Bruxelles International) / WBT (Wallonie Bruxelles Théâtre)
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