Je prends feu trop souvent
Inspired by Nijinsky’s Faune, I’m catching fire all too often is an ode to the power of adolescence and the power of transformation and mutation that emerges during this period. It explores the duality and animality that inhabit this bitter age of molting and roughness, but also, and above all, its flamboyant outbursts.
With a cameo scenography and an immersive sound device, this choreographic show for one dancer and one composer takes us on a roundabout journey, bringing together movement, electronic music and poetic texts, in an impulse that is both libertarian and precise, bringing Debussy’s musical volutes to life in the present.
Le faune is the bearer of a prestigious heritage: Mallarmé’s poem, Debussy’s symphonic work, Nijinsky’s choreographic piece. But who is this faun, half-animal and half-human? What does he have to tell us about the spurts that sometimes stir within us? What torments, dilemmas and questions does he express? And what about the multiple metamorphoses it echoes?
This stage proposal for (pre-)teenagers aims to bring back to them the bubbling energy of the wild beast, to take up with the body the animality that inhabits us and sometimes haunts us.
