A 35-minute trio of dancers, La Vitesse de l'eau is a variation on the piece RENVERSE, created in 2025 for eight performers. It is a choreographic score on the power of the high seas, which reveals a world in perpetual motion, thanks to the dynamics of ocean currents.
Set to music by Patrick de Oliveira, the dance emphasizes powerful motifs of movement by the dancers in space, through mastery of trajectory, turns, and phenomena of acceleration and deceleration.
This project is inspired by scientists' decades-long observation of global ocean currents, which are the cornerstone of the Earth's ecological balance. Then there is the news: on August 5, 2021, the journal Nature published the conclusions of these scientists, confirming a clear slowdown in ocean currents.
The enormous influx of non-saline water due to melting glaciers is disrupting this global cycle because the AMOC (Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation), 20 million cubic meters of water per second, circulates thanks to the energy between saline and non-saline, hot and cold, deep and shallow...
The questions are important: With this slowdown, how will the oceans continue to
absorb the CO2 we produce? How can the AMOC continue its role as a climate regulator? What will be the consequences for the incredible life forms and organisms that we do not yet know about that live in these oceans?
Trio de danseuses de 35 minutes, La Vitesse de l’eau décline la pièce RENVERSE
créé en 2025 pour 8 interprètes.
