Hêtre & Phasmes
In Beech, a young woman tames an unusual piece of apparatus and gradually creates a dreamlike space where her solitude blossoms. The fluidity of gesture becomes hypnotic. More spirited and acrobatic, Phasmes brings together the bodies of two dancers in a chimera evolving on a carpet of dead leaves.
The soaring flights of Hêtre, corps à corps between an acrobat and a suspended branch, respond to the grounded metamorphoses of the duet in Phasmes. Both pieces bring into play the civilized body and the material body, malleable and transformable. Taking turns as humans, trees or insects in these imaginary forests, the performers recreate a world of sensations and improbable encounters full of grace. A diptych at the crossroads of dance and circus about the link between human beings and nature.
