Sujets :
BalletBoyz [compagnie de danse]
Serpent [spectacle de danse]
Fallen [spectacle de danse]

Résumé :
In Serpent, Scarlett, who at only 27 is being picked up by classical companies around the world, goes for flowing, introspective movement that incorporates several striking images but offers little sense of purpose.

A man lifted out of a tight group, then absorbed back into it, a solo figure breaking from the pack, one still man in profile as the others move: these show Scarlett’s ability to make a fine moment, but overall the piece feels soppy, despite the men’s muscularity, aided by Max Richter’s soft-centred score that includes the sound of water falling. I thought of wafting seaweed rather than sexy dangerous snakes.

Maliphant’s Fallen uses traces of folk imagery, intimations of martial activity, and lifts and falls that have a hallucinatory quality. Michael Hulls’s lighting is a forceful character in itself and Armand Amar’s rumbling score supports the action well. [company summary]

Collection : Bibliothèque de l'École nationale de cirque

Localisation : Audiovidéothèque (pour location)

Cote : DANS B191b 2014

Zone  : Zone 2

• Ex. 1 — disponible