dance  | grande salle | running time 1 hr | presented during DANS(E)

friday 11 may 2012 at 20 h

Thomas Lebrun – Cie Illico

Here is a dance work which seems to run contrary to current trends. Thomas Lebrun, the creator, envisages this creation as “a reflection of and a perspective on romanticism in contemporary society and the choreographic art of today.” A piece for seven dancers and a string quartet, La jeune fille et la mort (Death and the maiden) returns to the source of the myth which inspired Franz Schubert’s sublime work, filled with grace and unspoken pain. Around young Anne-Sophie Lancelin, dancers of several generations travel through time and styles, delineating the trends and major developments in contemporary dance. Soaring around a bare stage divided by sharply angled lighting and chiaroscuro, they move through space and time, accompanying the young girl in her successive battles. There is no real death here but many sequences of mourning: the end of childhood, the despair of a break-up, the pain of aging – this piece revisits the fundamental stages of life, with the melancholia and subtlety that characterises the work of Thomas Lebrun.

www.cieillico.fr

music Franz Schubert Death and the maiden, String Quartet, D 810 / with the Quatuor Voce: violin Sarah Dayan, Cécile Roubin / viola Guillaume Becker / cello Florian Frère / dancers Odile Azagury, Anthony Cazaux, Raphaël Cottin, Christine Gérard, Anne-Sophie Lancelin, Corinne Lopez, Christian Ubl

Production Cie Illico. Coproduction Théâtre national de Chaillot / Dance in Lille / Center for choreographic development of Roubaix, Nord-Pas de Calais / Maison de la Danse, Lyon / CCN of Roubaix, Nord-Pas de Calais / Le Phénix, Scène nationale, Valenciennes / Ballet of the National Opera of the Rhine, CCN, others TBA. La Cie Illico is supported by the Ministry of Culture and Communication – DRAC Nord-Pas de Calais, in the category of support for registered companies and by the Regional Council of the Nord-Pas de Calais. The French Institute contributes regularly to the international tours of the Cie Illico. Premiere in March 2012.