At the ADC Pavilion in Geneva, the miraculous beach of choreographer Cindy Van Acker and her dancers

Published on December 14, 2024 at 9:24 p.m. / Modified on December 14, 2024 at 9:24 p.m.

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The paintings of the artists we love live in us, as we live in them. They rub off on the blotter of our thoughts, they color our irises, they rearrange the furniture of the soul. Cindy Van Acker spent a lot of time in front of the paintings of Léon Spilliaert (1881-1946), this Fleming who painted the low skies over the North Sea, the lighthouses at the end of the greige piers, the lace of the trees when winter simplifies the landscape. The Geneva artist of Belgian origin, winner of the Swiss Grand Prix for Performing Arts and the Leenaards Cultural Prize in 2023, says she was immersed in these works. Quiet Light, his new creation on display at the Pavillon ADC in Geneva before the Théâtre de Vidy in January, offers a reverberation as mysterious as it is captivating.

Quiet Light promises joy, but to reach this peak, we must move away from the shore of expected figurations, accept the empire of a space which is a sheet of shadow, of music which has the strangeness of the wind when it passes through a bottleneck, which later blossoms into chirping birds, which never attacks, but which always fluidifies attention. The musician Denis Rollet, so important in the choreographer’s work, reinterprets pieces by New Yorker Lea Bertucci. It is in this musical orb that the dancers Stéphanie Bayle and Daniela Zaghini evolve, each magnificent on their meridian, moving as if on a checkerboard, at a distance from each other, stretching their arms and legs like tentacles.

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