On January 29 at 8:30 PM at the Théâtre de la Croisette in Cannes
as part of the evening “Companies at the Service of Culture”
Love at First Sight
of a rebellious and passionate dance
The materials of the body in motion
Around Benjamin Lamarche and Claude Brumachon
by Cannes Jeune Ballet
Lightning, a wander, a love at first sight, a sonnet for four dancers and two dance partners created for them, with them, an exchange beyond words. Out of which, like a lightning bolt streaking through the night, arises the poetry of living bodies. of a rebellious and passionate dance
The materials of the body in motion
Claude Brumachon’s Words:
“It is always about creation; whether it is ongoing, in progress, maturing, bubbling, gestating, erupting, or being reprised, in work, in transmission, in memory, in reading, in view of another. It is always about that. And on the day when… there is no more, dance will cease.
We (Claude and I) arrived in Cannes last week. The geography doesn’t matter much; it’s the place where we are that matters to the dancers. Here, the school of Rosella Hightower.
In the studio on Rue de Colmar, the dancers (because one is a dancer long before being a student), Claude, Hacène Bahiri (the Ballet Master, as they say. The guide, the mentor, the one who accompanies the students to the other part of their life) and I. For the dancers, it’s a bit like jumping into water having learned (the word is appropriate) to swim, but not having experienced it yet.
Hacène, the Ballet Master, is that what it’s called? He has the precise, sharp eye, the intelligence of what the body hears, what senses catch and express in the brilliance of a gesture. The students (I then deliberately change the term) grapple with the meaning. The sensation, the poetic, the deep vibration of moving that gives dance its power and luminosity.
It stirs in the minds, it churns in the bodies and sometimes the spark springs forth, sharp and striking. This is beyond work, we are in interpretation. What dancing means. What dancing can be, can express and embrace.”
