Under the Star

Presentation

From dusk to dawn, Sous l’Étoile explores that elu­sive realm where night dis­rupts our per­cep­tions, sets the ima­gin­a­tion free, and gives rise to dreams, fears, desires and vis­ions. A sus­pen­ded world where our bear­ings begin to fal­ter and oth­er real­it­ies seem ready to emerge.

Viv­aldi, Ysaÿe, Lili Boulanger and Alex Nante reveal its dif­fer­ent faces: ghosts and sleep in La Notte; rev­er­ie and intro­spec­tion in Ysaÿe; the pas­sage from even­ing to morn­ing in Lili Boulanger; and finally Bajo la Estrella, a work ded­ic­ated to Mari­anne Piketty, which sees night as the pos­sible birth­place of a new day.

On stage, notes meet words. Video poems con­ceived by Cam­ille Bloom­field play with let­ters, lan­guages and images, while music, light and move­ment cre­ate a suc­ces­sion of tableaux. Gradu­ally, real­ity shifts, bound­ar­ies blur, and the audi­ence is car­ried towards dawn.