(A cold light to illuminate our) GAMES

(Une lumière froide pour éclairer nos) JEUX  echoes the original fantastical projection by Diaghilev, which he could not morally embody in 1913: the intention to depict an erotic relationship between a mature man and two young men was in fact discreetly hidden and the work was premiered by Nijinsky for a man and two women. The idea is transposed here for three women or three men in alternation. This afforded me a second opportunity (after the solo Clin de lune, 1993), to work with a masterpiece by Claude Debussy, which has the sublime particularity of creating space, clarity and rustling from the very first note… a time spontaneously open to movement. The photographer Jacqueline Salmon, the lighting designer Manuel Bernard, and the costume designer Christian Burle compose the receptacle of a dance that explores without innocence the relationship between each protagonist and their two partners.

Michel Kelemenis