Là où sont les oiseaux
Choreography: Gil Roman
Text: Chen Shenglai
Music: original composition by Thierry Hochstätter & jB Meier (Citypercussion), taken from the prelude to Wagner’s Parsifal, taken from Gorillaz
Light: Dominique Roman
Costumes: Jean-Paul Knott
Sets: Marta Pan Sculpture
While I was preparing this tour in China, I had the pleasure of meeting, in our Lausanne studios, Mr. Chen Sheng Lai. On this occasion, he handed me a text he had written: « Le charme de la vie » (the charm of life). Echoing this poem, images and ideas have emerged: life – death – re-birth – cycle – Ying – Yang – balance. Suddenly, a light … Marta Pan.
This incredible sculptor, who I had the pleasure to meet and whose works are exhibited worldwide, was a close friend of Maurice Béjart. They collaborated on various occasions, among others in 1959, when Marta Pan created « Equilibre » (Balance), which inspired Maurice Béjart to create the ballet of the same name, in, around and with the sculpture.
Excepting this sculpture, for this ballet, nothing remains, there is no trace of choreography.
So I started working from the text of Chen Sheng Lai and the work of Marta Pan. Thierry Hochstätter and jB Meier, who worked on my two latest creations, composed the original music for this new piece.
A studio, dancers and music
Marta, Maurice
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