Estelle Danvers
Company
Solos and duets
Estelle Danvers – Choreographer
Laëtitia Antonin – Assistant
Solos and duets powerfully tell isolated moments, they are the intimate and the universe that accompanies each of us throughout a life.
BOLERO
Duration – 4'14
Ravel's Boléro (composed in 1928) is a work that has spanned not only centuries but also the entire world. This version with the voice of Angélique Kidjo only reinforces the power of this work written for dance. It is the story of a chosen one, a universal story...
CASTA DIVA
Duration – 4'55
Norma, a Gallic priestess, loses her love, Pollione, the Roman preconsul, and tries to win him back by delivering a message of peace to her own people in order to avoid the war that is brewing. Transported through the centuries, Norma, the divine and universal woman, expresses with the same modesty and generosity her desire for a world of peace.
MAN WHO IS BORN OF WOMAN
Duration – 10'34
When a woman takes a man's hand, it is often to take him further than he had imagined.
STABAT MATER
Duration – 3'20
This solo, empathetic and emotional, translates what we are capable of feeling, the human pain of a mother.
THAIS MEDITATION
Duration – 5'10
The paths of reverie lead us towards dreams...
FILIAE MAESTAE JERUSALEM
Duration – 6'16
“Afflicted Women of Jerusalem.”
The women mourn the suffering of Christ, feelings mixed with Passion, sadness, death and hope.
This solo performed by a dancer to the voice of Philippe Jarousky evokes without any ambiguity the empathetic strength of women as an extraordinary feeling.
THE FALL
Duration – 9'43
The encounter of a lost woman and a lonely man