Le Faune et La grande nymphe, 2003
L’Après-midi d’un faune, premiered on 1912 May the 29th at théâtre du Châtelet in Paris, has been transmitted to Emmanuelle Huynh by the Quatuor Albrecht Knust’s members.
L’Après-midi d’un faune by Vaslav Nijinski is considered as a major work in the history of dance. Although it came from a “classical” frame of production - the Ballets Russes - this piece inaugurates modern dance. Nijinsky's work also allows a transversal approach of a burgeoning artistic context : the eponymous poem by Stéphane Mallarmé, the music of Claude Debussy, the sets and costumes by Léon Bakst, the collotypes Adolf Meyer.
With L’Après-midi d’un faune, it is a whole chapter in the history of art that unfolds.
Emmanuelle Huynh is performing successively the great Nymph and the Faun, in silence, then with music, she allows the audience to recover the original score, by remembering and overprinting different interpretations.
This artistic proposal can take place on stage, in museum rooms, atypical performance places or in natural locations, such as gardens.
Le Faune and La Grande nymphe : extracts from « L’Après-midi d’un faune »
Choreography : Vaslav Nijinski (1889-1950)
Music Prélude à l’Après-midi d’un faune by Claude Debussy
From the Stéphane Mallarmé’s poem
Performed by Emmanuelle Huynh
Loic Touzé or Boris Charmatz can be involved in the piece
Production Plateforme Mùa / Coproduction Centre national de danse contemporaine.
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