Création : 2017

Durée : 55’

Chorégraphe, interprète : Soraya Thomas
Danseur collaborateur : Nicholas APHANE
Danseur collaborateur : Thabo Kobeli
Compositeur : AUTOMAT
Lumière : Valery Foury
Regards extérieurs : Isabelle Pillot
Scénographie : Cédric Pérraudeau
Son : Thierry Th Desseaux
Production : Morphose
Co-production : Cité des Arts - Théâtre les Bambous

Loin de raconter une histoire, “Head rush” explore l’inconscient, le  non-dit, la mise en abîme, les sensations, que produisent les substances  ou les émotions fortes.
En « plans séquences » chacun pleins d’une histoire, reliés entre eux  par le fil ténu de la dépendance une plongée dans un univers étrange,  étranger, étrangement familier où les corps chargés d’émotions sont  poussés à bout.

Trained at the Conservatoire d'Annecy (direction: Jean-Marc Boitière),  Soraya Thomas obtained her State Diploma in dance education in 2000,  before joining the company Coline, professional insertion cell for young  contemporary dancers. There she met Jeanclaude Gallotta, Michel  Kéléménis and Myriam Burns, for whom she took on roles. In 2002, she  arrived at La Réunion where she met the choreographer Eric Languet. With  him, she participated in the projects Interludes, Faux-ciels and  L'Esprit et la ruche, and danced in Chemins faisant, On était tous là  pour s'aider et Somewhere, out there, life was screaming. In 2007, she performed her first choreography in William Shakespeare’s  Le Songe d'une nuit d'été for the Sakidi company, before signing her  first play.

Created by Soraya Thomas in 2011 in La Réunion, the company Morphose  places contemporary dance, the sound universe and the intersection of  artistic disciplines at the center of its projects. She explores the  link between intimate space and public space in a work of choreographic  creation based on the centre, succession, relationship to the other and  space. The urban space and the street are the place of the daily  contemporary movement, so dear to the choreographer. The process is to  give them back what they offer us every day: inspiration. We dance on  the asphalt that we walk every day without paying attention to it, here  we tell with the bodies. The bodies work in volume, anchorage and  ability to react with everyday life. Each of Morphose’s creations involves talented performers and creators. Their collaboration gives rise to singular works where the work consists in bringing societal questions to the stage. It is a question of starting from the real, from the concrete, to tend towards a choreographic and aesthetic transposition. It results from strong and living pieces, in which humanity is at the heart of artistic purpose. Dance is purely and simply an art of the living, it touches the intimate and makes it universal. The energies speak for themselves. With  duality, poetry, humanity and animality, through a streamlined  movement, the Morphose dance tells us about life, about others with  others, and takes us into a spiral as rock as delicate, to offer a dance  to the public, and to deposit on these common places, for a moment,  another look.