Dance performance with light and shadow effects
In the first part, Faire fleurir brings together a dancer, two musicians and an atmosphere of light and shadow in a deliberately confined space: a canvas ceiling suspended 1.5 metres above the ground, forcing the performers to remain bent over. It is in this place, between the azure sky and the underground world, that dancer Nicolas Fayol advances, step by step, segment by segment, a body and its story.
Discovered in hip-hop battles in the early 2000s, Nicolas Fayol breaks away from verticality to invent other bodies: animal, child, moving stone. Alongside him, the French duo Mont Analogue composes telluric and organic music, made up of field recordings, electronic pulsations and mineral breaths. Around this canvas cave, the audience witnesses a sensitive exploration where gestures and materials are transformed, where every touch is beneficial, where constraint is turned into poetry.
In the second part of the evening, the audience is invited to lie down in the installation, a dream machine designed to plunge them back into the time of myth, metamorphosis and primordial turmoil. This experience, which lies somewhere between a live audiovisual show and a relaxation workshop, allows them to experience the structure of the show from the inside during a motionless journey lasting around fifty minutes.
“In Faire Fleurir, there is this desire to use the technicality of breakdancing to invent a body, a body stripped of its verticality, to explore the definition of the condition of a man standing, a man sitting, a man lying down.” Nicolas Fayol
