Mastering fire, drawing power from it and being galvanized by its energy, is at the origin of many mythologies as well as many dances. Choreographic research is not far removed from this, and keep playing with bodies to animate, maintain and share this element. That's why, when Fabrice Lambert discovered the film Into Eternity, he found in it material for a new alchemy. Michael Madsen's documentary describes the construction of the country's nuclear waste disposal center in Onkalo, Finland. It's a titanic, unthinkable project, based on the time it takes for radioactivity to disappear: 100,000 years.
For Fabrice Lambert, the sheer time scale of Onkalo makes it a mythology in the present. A mythology of sacred fire which has something in common with the story of Prometheus - a conquest at a given moment, followed by eternal torment. On stage, ten dancers draw a geometry in motion. Directing flows, probing gaps and provoking ruptures to experience this vertiginous experience of energy and duration. In an empty space sculpted by light, they are the masters of a ceremony where the perception of infinity leads us to grasp the present as the generative motor of a common and precious good.
Premiered in July 13th-17th, 2015 at the Avignon Festival
Conception et choreography Fabrice Lambert
Assistant to choreography Hanna Hedman
Interpretation Aina Alegre, Jérôme Andrieu, Mathieu Burner, Vincent Delétang, Lorenzo De Angelis, Corinne Garcia, Julie Guibert, Hanna Hedman, Yannick Hugron, Jung-Ae Kim/reprise avec Isabelle Kürzi.
LightsPhilippe Gladieux
Sound Marek Havlicek
Scenography and costumes Thierry Grapotte
Vortex Guillaume Cousin
Stage manager Bruno Moinard et Christian Le Moulinier
Production L’Expérience Harmaat
Coproduction Le Festival d'Avignon, Le Manège de Reims – scène nationale, ARCADI, le Centre national de la danse, Le CDC Atelier de Paris-Carolyn Carlson, Pôle Sud - Centre de Développement Chorégraphique en préfiguration - Strasbourg.
Residency at Kultur Skellefteå en association avec NorrlandsOperan, avec le soutien du Centre Chorégraphique National Ballet de Lorraine – accueil studio 2014/2015, accueil studio du Ballet de l’Opera National du Rhin / Centre Chorégraphique National de Mulhouse.
With the support of la Région Ile-de-France, du Département de la Seine-Saint-Denis, de la SPEDIDAM, du Théâtre de Saint Quentin-en-Yvelines, scène nationale, à la résidence de création de L’apostrophe scène nationale de Cergy-Pontoise et du val d’Oise.
Photos Alain Julien