Impossible to put a label on Raphaëlle Boitel's latest creation.
If
La Chute des anges
borrows from the circus, dance and plastic art, this show does not belong to any of these genres.
That is to say if it is out of the norm.
To appreciate it, you have to let yourself slide into the succession of absolutely superb images that it generates.
The whole thing is extremely poetic: we are tossed between moments that seem to have come out of the famous
Dance
by Lucinda Childs on the music of Philip Glass, and others where we would think we were at the Rijksmuseum in Amsterdam in front of the lights. obscure Dutch masters like Rembrandt.
We pass from one universe to another, sometimes without transition, and it is a delight for the eyes.
Apart from a few useless and incongruous spoken passages, the rest is of very high quality, supported by very beautiful original music by Arthur Bison.
Although the work would not have the same scope without Tristan Baudoin's lights.
Not a flood of spotlights like in
Starmania
at La Seine Musicale, but a very judicious accompaniment of light beams that juggle with the movements.
With its characters suspended in the air or seeming to fall from the sky one knows not how, this piece lives up to its title.
Half-men, half-supernatural beings, they invite us on a journey towards our imagination, to elevate ourselves.
And perhaps, to awaken our need for dreams which allows us to transcend the pangs of everyday life.
The Théâtre du Rond-Point has found the perfect time - the end of year celebrations - to program this show.
It will certainly appeal to children and parents, as it will be able to take teenagers out of the material universe that the world offers them today.
* Until December 31 (01.44.95.98.21).