For this performance created in the context of the Musée de l’Orangerie and the Salles des Nymphéas by Claude Monet, Fabrice Mazliah has chosen to present excerpts from more or less well-known pieces by William Forsythe, which were created at different times during their collaboration.

Fabrice Mazliah revisits this dance heritage in a unique way and in the form of improvisations, using different elements and modalities that each of these works requires, in order to develop a hybrid and complex material.

Since improvisation is one of the most fundamental bases of Forsythe’s work, Fabrice Mazliah places this medium at the heart of this performance. An exploration of gestures and steps is thus developed that is offered to the eyes as a dialogue: that between these different writings and the body of the dancer who revisits a heritage whose skin and muscles keep the memory.

This show invites us to discover the intimate relationship that a performer can develop after having worked with a choreographer over such a long period of their life.

Premiere: 26 January 2022, Musée de l’Orangerie, Paris

Credits:
Concept, choreography: Fabrice Mazliah
Performance: Fabrice Mazliah, Cyril Baldy

Commissioned by Musées d’Orsay et de l’Orangerie – Valéry-Giscard-d’Estaing

Quand un fantastique interprète et un chorégraphe d’exception rencontrent une œuvre picturale magistrale …When a fantastic performer and an exceptional choreographer meet a masterful work of art…
Delphine Baffour in „La Terrasse“, 19.09.2022