Braises

Between poetic index and engagement with current events, BRAISES marks the fortieth season of Kelemenis & Cie. What ore is a choreographer’s quarry made of? Laughter, fatigue, sweat, emotions, blows, traces? On stage, we will burn the gestures of the past to see what the ashes of a dance are made of. Michel Kelemenis’s latest pieces stand out through a non-formal approach to the demands placed on the performers. An extraordinary dynamic is revealed; the living invades the stage. In his research, the choreographer seeks to deepen the anchoring point of his desire to write movement at the heart of bodies, in order to free them and, through them, free the people within. Already, elements of the past slip and twist into these recent works, sometimes mischievously, sometimes for pleasure, through thematic echoes or because he recognizes in them what belongs to a personal syntax. BRAISES invites 7 performers to take hold of elements gleaned from immaterial archives made of images, emotions and fragmented memory, not to regenerate forms, but to make them the fuel for impulses renewed by today’s bodies… The time has come for the freedom of wandering in the joy of being present with the dancers, who transform the writing into illuminations through their regenerative, carefree, baroque and playful light. A creative act set to music by accomplice Angelos Liaros Copola, to savor the present together in the face of a hostile, anxiety-provoking, isolating and warlike surrounding reality. Between poetic index and engagement with current events, BRAISES marks the fortieth season of Kelemenis&cie. Concept, choreography, set design: Michel Kelemenis Music: Angelos Liaros Copola Performers: 7 dancers from Kelemenis & Cie