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Nil
From the River Nile, the choreographers Laurence Yadi and Nicolas Cantillon retained the power of suggestion and the allegoric value:
the river behaves like an imaginary reserve, buzzing with orientalist reminiscences; a way of envisaging movement, filled with curves and meanders.
On the stage, six dancers move in accordance with undulating, continual and fluid gestures, creating an effect of loose, floating, dreamlike bodies. The space is transformed into an aqueous substance and conveys the feeling of the organic property of the river and its proliferating scale.
Drifting along to a mesmerizing score composed by Sir Richard Bishop, the dancers follow the flow of a dreamt-off Nile, caught in its pure sensoriality, as described by Gustave Flaubert during his trip to the East in a letter to his mother:
“The East is first and foremost a great light of silver that has melted into the sea”.
Updating: January 2012
