Le Sacre du Printemps

RENCONTRES

The choreography opens with a simple and almost ritual image: 10 dancers, arranged in a circle, form a silent community. This circle, a figure of unity and equality, becomes the starting point of a silent dialogue. Each seems both present for themselves and attentive to others.

From this shared attention springs the dance. What was initially a juxtaposition of individualities becomes a collective, fluid, and organic creation. The initial circle never truly disappears; it transforms into a living dynamic, symbol of a community in motion.

LE SACRE DU PRINTEMPS

Commissioned by the Centre Culturel Tjibaou in Nouméa to celebrate the centenary of the premiere of The Rite of Spring at the Théâtre des Champs-Elysées in Paris in 1913, Julien Lestel gives us his version rooted in Kanak culture. Set to Igor Stravinsky's original score, this ballet is composed of two parts consisting of a sequence of incantatory scenes and ritual games that culminate, in the first part, in the intense dance of the earth where men consult the future according to rites and, in the second, in the great sacrificial dance where a woman is chosen to be delivered to the gods.