Thrice de Damien Jalet

A choreographer of extreme sensations, Damien Jalet composes a three-part show for the young Norwegian company Nagelhus Schia Productions, where bodies dialogue with the forces of nature. Between wind, stone, and sea, the dancers explore intense physical and emotional states, offering you a sensory experience.

Constructed as a triptych, Thrice brings together pieces conceived at different times and united here for the first time at the invitation of Guro Nagelhus Schia, a former performer with the Carte Blanche company. Gusts, Médusés, and Brise-lames each explore a natural element – air, matter, and water – through the dancers' movement. On stage, the performers transform the space by unrolling carpets that gradually become a set, like a passage to another world. In Gusts, the three dancers' bodies seem to be carried by the wind and the sound of the enchanting saxophone of Norwegian Bendik Giske. The gestures are fast, circular, almost unpredictable, like gusts of wind. In Médusés, inspired by the myth of Medusa and created in 2013 at the Louvre Museum, six dancers play with the idea of petrification by gaze. Their bodies alternate between rigidity and fluidity, like living sculptures seeking to free themselves from a powerful spell. Finally, Brise-lames immerses us in a sub-aquatic universe, where movements evoke waves, recalling human resilience and the need for solidarity. For this commission, initially placed before Covid with Damien Jalet for nine dancers from the Paris Opéra Ballet, the costumes, video images, and set design are by the famous French visual artist JR and accompanied by music composed by the celebrated Japanese pianist Koki Nakano. The show is fully in line with the universe of Damien Jalet, a choreographer renowned for his collaborations with cinema, music, and visual arts, notably with Kohei Nawa in Vessel or Planet (wanderer), both hosted at Chaillot - Théâtre national de la danse. For Damien Jalet, long associated with Chaillot, dance becomes a universal language, capable of recounting our relationship with the world and with others.

Delphine Goater

Duration: 1h

Category: Dance Music

Meet the artists after the performance: on Wednesd