Muette

A dancer moves with his mouth wide open, appearing stupefied. No sound emerges, as if the body were in a state of apnea. For this most anticipated solo, premiering at the festival, choreographer and dancer Boris Charmatz creates an atmosphere of total silence, moving furtively, as if dancing inside the stillness he produces. Known for his extraordinary expressive range, Charmatz balances virtuosity with the vulnerability of raw exposure: naked, extremely close to the audience, he allows fleeting images to cross his body. 

The silence present from the start gradually becomes the stage on which sounds of the body are heard: breaths, jolts, slips, falls, and muffled voices. Moving from obscene to ecstatic gestures, he seems to be accompanied by music that is absent yet somehow liberating. In an age of overstimulation, dancing in silence is not simply moving without music—it opens a door, and the lips, to an inner world of expression, where a parted or closed mouth shields an abyss of suspended emotions. Each night, in the intimate space of Kaaistudios, Charmatz recreates a shared proximity in which a body seems on the verge of revelation, and uncovers the precious, fragile tremor of a moment we might share.