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    Carolyn Carlson Company 

    Carolyn Carlson’s latest work takes the form of an ode to the natural world.

    Photo du ballet The Tree, Carolyn Carlson Company © Frédéric Iovino
    Carolyn Carlson Company, The Tree © Frédéric Iovino
    Photo du ballet The Tree, Carolyn Carlson Company © Frédéric Iovino
    Carolyn Carlson, The Tree © Frédéric Iovino
    Photo du ballet The Tree, Carolyn Carlson Company © Frédéric Iovino
    Carolyn Carlson Company, The Tree © Frédéric Iovino
    Photo du ballet The Tree, Carolyn Carlson Company © Frédéric Iovino
    Carolyn Carlson Company, The Tree © Frédéric Iovino

    Carolyn Carlson | choreography & scenography 
    Aleksi Aubry-Carlson, René Aubry, Maarja Nuut, K. Friedrich Abel | music 
    Rémi Nicolas | lights 
    Gao Xingjian | projected paintings
    Elise Dulac, Chrystel Zingiro & Atelier du Théâtre National 
    de Chaillot | costumes

    Alexis Ochin, Chinatsu Kosakatani, Juha Marsalo, Céline Maufroid, Riccardo Meneghini, Sonia Al Khadir, Yutaka Nakata, Sara Orselli, Sara Simeoni | dancers

    THE TREE, FRAGMENTS OF POETICS ON FIRE
    Piece for 9 dancers (2021)

    « We are not external to the universe; we are seeds developing in cycles and in rhythm, like the changing seasons which govern each creation ». This is how Carolyn Carlson defines her latest major work for her company. The Tree is a poetic meditation on humanity and nature on the brink of disaster. Following on from Water, Pneuma and Now, she is completing the cycle of works inspired by Gaston Bachelard. In The Tree, Carolyn Carlson’s dreamlike vision and the virtuosity of the dancers convey a powerful and dynamic expression of love for nature on the verge of collapse, in the hope it will be reborn like a phoenix rising from the ashes.

    Coréalisation Quartier Libre Productions | Théâtre des Champs-Elysées
    Production Carolyn Carlson Company
    Coproduction Théâtre National de Chaillot | Théâtre Toursky Marseille | Ballet du Nord / Centre Chorégraphique National Roubaix Hauts-de-France | Equilibre Nuithonie Fribourg