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Damien Jalet, the Belgian choreographer who promises to bewitch Geneva with his metamorphoses

Damien Jalet, the Belgian choreographer who promises to bewitch Geneva with his metamorphoses
Damien Jalet, the Belgian choreographer who promises to bewitch Geneva with his metamorphoses

Posted on May 02, 2025 at 14:46. / Modified on May 02, 2025 at 14:48.

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Passage choreographer. Damien Jalet is this artist whose gesture calls the moult, that of a grip that has become, after transition, holy in Emilia Pérez – He signs the musical part of Jacques Audiard’s film – that of the diva of his heart, Madonna, in her tour Madame X, of which he orchestrated four sequences. With his friend, the Japanese plastic artist Kohei Nawa, he repeats these days Mirage, New creation of the Ballet du Grand Théâtre de Genève – first, Tuesday, May 6. Electrized by the music of French Thomas Bangalter – the co -founder of Daft Punk -, the equipped should upset our imaginations.

Dancers prey to elements. The scene according to Damien Jalet, 48, is made of that, the breath of the great tides, the conciliabule of birds, the murmur of the hills. In Skidin the Grand Théâtre, in the fall of 2022, his performers confronted a wall tilted at 34 degrees, such as the children of Sisyphus. In Planet [wanderer], Intrepids left their imprints on a spongy black sand, made up of potato starch, gland in Japanese. They married the landscape – here too, by Kohei Nawa -, experienced its density and were – because the whole issue is there – transfigured.

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