NUWA

Choreography: Shang Chi Sun (TAIWAN/GERMANY)

AVIGNON OFF 2009/length of the Show: 1 hour

Nuwa is a creation of the Taiwanese choreograph Shang Chi Sun who mixes skilfully with harmony dance and theatre. Three characters are in this piece: the first one is a pianist who is dancing for the occasion and interprets us a improvised song on a piano taken to pieces, playing on each element, drumming with his palms, with the chair, pinching the strings of white and black piano keys. A woman, Nefelli Skarmea, and Shang Chi Sun, who guides the artists with love, are dancing in harmony with the music. Both are wearing a golden sheet on their faces and the three characters are raising up to life, from one to the others. As they were one originally. Man, woman, duet, trio… The theme of this creation is life, hatching of life: Nuwa is a Goddess of Life, representing male and female, sister and brother, parents… And in his choreography, Shang Chi Sun shows us intelligently and subtly the different sides of the Goddess. The supple and aerial move contrasts with the play on the ground, the frivolity allows a dive into life and death surrounded by finesse lights. With the mix of theatre expression, flexible acrobatics, and graceful dance, this creation visually wonderful offers to spectators series of strong emotions, the beauty of the show transcends words which come naturally at the end to close this presentation, discovery of the world and the peer.

Diane Vandermolina/Translation Audrey Husson