Faits et Gestes

Faits et Gestes (Deeds and Gestures) is an encapsulation of life. In less than an half hour, it aims at summarizing life’s circumstances through their completion until all that has to be done is done. Nothing is missing, neither unity of time, nor place or space, in order to create with this piece some kind of classsical tragedy – all of the soul’s ressources are expressed up to the final stamping that uses up the final energies.

Classicism is also the choreographer’s concern for not saying more than what must be said and at the exact moment required. Faits et Gestes is a series of snapshots whose terseness underlines its intensity and violence. At the end, as stage lights fade, time stands still for a moment before returning to its rythm, the rythm of daily life that is slower, more dissipated.

Source: University Musical Society program, Octobre 27, 1990