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LAKE


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Artistic director: Michèle Murray
Artistic collaboration: Maya Brosch
Performers: Lorenzo Dallai, Michèle Murray
Music: Richard Wagner
Lights: Catherine Noden
Duration: 25 minutes
Premiere: Studio Théâtre Le Regard du Cygne Paris Festival Les Spectacles Sauvages
With the support of the Espace Bernard Glandier Montpellier

2010

Beginning with the wish to create a romantic and contemporary dance performance, we base our creative processes and tools on several points:

  • our memories as audience, witnessing ballet performances and in particular “Swan Lake”, the absolute reference in ballet
  • Richard Wagner’s opera overtures, providing the suggestion of a constantly renewable romantic impulse
  • our identities as contemporary dancers and our personal history, simultaneously drawing on ballet dance codes and contemporary dance codes

We want to create a performance combining explosive energy and moments of solitary introspection, inspired by the poet Charles Baudelaire’s quote, in which “everything is order and beauty, luxury, calm and sensual delight.”

PRESSE LAKE

‘Danser Magazine’ Thomas Hahn / Paris / Studio Théâtre Regard du Cygne / May 20, 2010
At the ‘Regard du Cygne Theater’, the ‘Spectacles Sauvages’ series present short open performances of varying aesthetics and form. . . Never did a performance fit these criteria as perfectly as the show ‘LAKE’ with Michèle Murray and Lorenzo Dallai, transformed into black swans, alarmed and vulnerable. Never have dancers evoked instinctive, wild and untamed states as perfectly. Discreet, accurate and to the point, their gestures speak about the attempt at understanding life, while capturing a few scores of Tchaikovsky’s ballet. They are barely aware of some remaining glitter on their bodies.. But the beauty of a ballet is a small thing confronted to nature, of which we experience here the terribly fragile grace. An ecological « pas de deux ! »

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