Solaire

Solaire, In collaboration with lighting designer Philippe Gladieux, gives birth to a stage installation called “Slide”: a lighting device activated by manual movements of images responding to the movements on stage.

For Fabrice Lambert, sound, space and light are more than just environments in which to inscribe movement. They are the very fabric of movement. In Solaire, the lighting reveals or conceals the bodies in a subtle gradation of climates, from darkness to blinding rapture. A radiant show in which the energy of the five performers is matched by their generosity.

Solaire is a game of contrasts. It's a game with body tones that modifies the relationship to movement. It's an attempt to mobilize the uncontrollable. This play responds to the intensity of the luminous flux. Physical engagement occupies the foreground of the piece. It is based on similar flows of rapid energy, accumulation and explosion. Like the memory that searches the brain, the body acts entirely with space. This composition of tensions is both attuned to and detached from its context. This lighting-partner implies a precise, rapid, measured movement of space, which is at times swept, at times traversed, at other times act as an axis, where light becomes the extension of gesture, and shadow its negative. Solaire thus creates a series of landscapes architecting our perceptions, providing an image of the interweaving of memories in the present.”
Fabrice Lambert

Premiered in 2010 at the Rencontres Chorégraphiques de Seine-Saint-Denis and in 2012 at the Théâtre de la Ville in Paris.