François Chaignaud, Cecilia Bengolea
Sylphides
decemberdec 17 – 18
© Alain Monot ©
© Alain Monot ©
Wednesday december 17
19h
Wednesday december 17
19h30
Wednesday december 17
20h
Thursday december 18
19h
Thursday december 18
19h30
Thursday december 18
20h
Conception Cecilia Bengolea, François Chaignaud. With (in progress): Cecilia Bengolea, Cécile Banquey, François Chaignaud, Alex Mugler, Chiara Gallerani, Germain Louvet. Lighting Abigail Fowler. Technical Director Anthony Merlaud.
Production VLOVAJOB PRU; Le Quartz – National Theatre in Brest
Revival supported by: the Grand Palais and the Festival d’Automne in Paris
Coproduction Le Quartz – National Theatre in Brest; ZEF – National Theatre in Marseille; VIADANSE – National Choreographic Centre of Bourgogne Franche-Comté in Belfort; ICI – CCN Montpellier-Occitanie; La Ménagerie de verre, as part of the StudioLab programme; Théâtre de l’Usine (Geneva)
VLOVAJOB PRU is supported by the DRAC Poitou-Charentes – Ministry of Culture and receives support from the Institut Français for its international projects.
François Chaignaud is associate artist at Chaillot – National Theatre of Dance, at the Maison de la Danse, and the Biennale de Lyon.
With the support of Dance Reflections by Van Cleef & Arpels
The Grand Palais and the Festival d’Automne in Paris present this performance as a joint production.
With the support of
With their bodies vacuum-packed into black latex bags borrowed from the world of S&M, the sylphs evoke, by turns, recumbent figures set in stone, cocoons made of some kind of dark-coloured matter or body bags. What unfurls in this piece piece is a perception-based enigma, which deftly slips from ancient statuary into Body Art. This Portrait brings Sylphides back to life, the first mythical piece co-signed by Cecilia Bengolea and François Chaignaud in 2009, performed here in a choral and immersive version.
The Sylphides, these creatures of the air that populated eighteenth-century literature, and which were embodied in the famous ballet of the nineteenth century, conjure up in our imagination grace and lightness. But also the possibility of a bodily envelope which is freed from mortal flesh. By examining this element of mythology, the duo brings us a performance which, by means of a redefinition of the relationship between surface and interiority, throws the perception of the body into disarray. Protected by a latex membrane vacuum, their silhouettes, in the form of malleable shapes, become transformed in accordance with the ceremonial aspiration and breathing that sets them in motion. In this extended version exhibited at the Grand Palais, a host of figures will be bringing this tale of death and rebirth to life.
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