Retour Amont: Le Rêve

What is metamorphosis if not a transformation so great that it transcends its original form? Before Retour Amont: le Rêve, there was Retour Amont, a duet created by Claire Croizé and Etienne Guilloteau in the fall of 2020, in which both went Back on stage for the first time in five years. It became a search for reconnect with the physical through their own bodies.

For this new creation, Guilloteau invited three more dancers and expanded the musical set-up. Like a song laced with samples and citations, Retour Amont: le Rêve mixes new and old movements, texts by René Char and Foucault and live music from Cage to Schoenberg. Personal connections touch universal stories of wandering and crossing borders, in a space that effaces the physical boundaries between audience and performers. You are invited to define your own perspective – or not. Different layers shift alongside and across each other like events in someone else’s dream, disorienting, enchanting and mystical at once.
Since the performance could not take place in front of a live audience, they made a film recording of it.

• Along with Claire Croizé, dancer and choreographer Etienne Guilloteau leads the company ECCE. Last season, they made Pole Reports from Space together, and in previous years, they staged productions like Mer- and Feu on the Kaaitheater stage. In Retour Amont: Le Rêve, the music is performed live by Alain Franco, Jean-Lus Plouvier (Ictus) and Aisha Orazbayeva.