L'onde / Le cercle

Searching for the deeper being, these two pieces, these two voyages, are inexplicable and impossible to summarize - nevertheless, they are alive.

“All of my pieces are milestones on a straight path, without diversions”, explains Nacera Belaza, a new artist associated with Chaillot – Théâtre national de la Danse. And in fact, her pieces cut to the quick on a stage of thick darkness - like a sculptor chiseling marble, she trims away the superfluous. In Le Cercle, as in L’Onde, only the power of gesture can emerge on the stage. The shadows make the very air palpable, while time slows down within the infinity of gesture. These two quintets - this choreographer’s first group pieces - are performed in a single evening, and deploy a type of dance as powerful as it is slippery, staggeringly beautiful, translated by a sober and spellbinding aesthetic. In these two pieces, Nacera Belaza invites us for a metaphysical evening, where the visible and the invisible intermingle.

Agnès Izrine

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