A sensitive exchange between choreography, music, nature, and a camera

Four seasons

Four landscapes

Four choreographers

Four phases of the loving couple

Franck

For us, it was important to work on the preludes to a love story, so to talk about all that animal force that invades us when we're in love, all

that passionate relationship we have, all the conflicts it can bring between our animal instinct that comes out of us, and all our reasons, our

conscience, our cultural environment. It's this conflict that we can have when we're first in love that can transform us, make us much gentler

despite our principles and our reasoning, through the idea of letting go, of giving ourselves to the other and losing in a discovery of

ourselves.

What did you find different about the way you approached your creative work with a filmed object?

Franck

For us, it was a real opportunity to work with video. We're not used to working with video. With film, we can work on a virtuosity that's a bit

impossible in real life. We can make loops out of movements and work for lengths of time that are technically impossible on stage. This duet

is impossible to do live. It's an opportunity for us to be able to go very far in the virtuosity that we wanted to explore with the dancers.

How did shooting this choreography in Mauritius influence the adaptation of what you created in your studio in Brussels?

Franck

Spring comes after the dark, gloomy winter. Winter can be a time of sadness and heartbreak.

In Mauritius we found this waterfall, this water flowing down to the sea. So, for us, it was a beautiful symbol to follow the water that melts

after the winter and flows into the sea. A love story. It's a bit like that. You throw yourself into a story and then you can find yourself adrift, in

the middle of the sea, and you can't really control your feelings, your conscience or your unconsciousness. I wanted to evoke the fear of

getting lost, of falling, of getting up again, of internal conflicts, of these fears that grip us. That's what I thought would be interesting to

explore through movement...