Dancer and choreographer Jérôme Bel asked actress Valérie Dréville to interpret certain dance moments that have remained as major moments in modern dance. A meeting between two personalities from the performing arts, at the crossroads of the modern history of dance and theatre.
On the stage, on the courtyard side, seated on two chairs facing the audience, there is a woman and a man.
The man is the dancer and choreographer Jérôme Bel. On his lap a laptop computer, at his feet a desk. From one end of the show to the other, it is he who will send the music and decide on the lights.
The woman is the actress Valérie Dréville, who will take over dance and interpret it using her own language, the time of an inner journey during which her imagination will appropriate some great solos of modern dance. , those of Isadora Duncan, Pina Bausch or Gene Kelly.
“Dances for an Actress”, by Valerie Dreville and Jerome Bel is to be discovered in Aubervilliers, at the Théâtre de la Commune-Centre Dramatique National until Friday 22 April.
At the end of the show, music review with Fanny Bleichner who met the Angolan singer Pongo who has just released her first solo album “Sakidila”.