Immersion in white.
Neither pointes nor tutu but this same principle of the white act of 19th century ballets inscribed there, a blank page on which to unfold dreams.
Gaëlle Bourges performs her
Austerlitz
there , a choreographic variation based on the eponymous novel by Sebald.
Her white is special.
It has the powdery shine of memories.
Gaëlle Bourges has studied dance a lot, but also art history.
To complete the portrait of this 57-year-old artist, we must add that she writes.
She plays all her strings to compose her pieces which are held as much by the images as by the text and the bodies.
His last opuses dealt with
The Lady and the Unicorn
(
A Mon Seul Desire
) or
Lascaux
.
She sets off here in the footsteps of Sebald: in the same way as Jacques, the hero of
Austerlitz
sets out in search of his memories, and accumulates fragments which end up making sense with each other, she searches for the traces of his past and that of the six performers of the piece, who early…
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