ARCHIVES 2012 / Je suis venue

What would happen if, after their press conferences, politicians had to dance their speeches? Using a pastiche of an international conference rapidly turning into the zaniest proposals, the performer Gaspard Delanoë, accompanied by the powerful rhythm of the zapateo of the Lebanese dancer Yalda Younes, orchestrates a peace plan for the Middle East, “between utopia and cold realism”. And when the words and their spoken translations are no longer sufficient, you must then “throw your body into the battle”. The martial cutting edge of the flamenco of Yalda Younes, trained in the characteristic grammar of the great master Israel Galván, who is the piece's choreographer, speaks clearly. Je suis venue proposes a fully fledged language to us that is freed from the triviality of our everyday language, to attempt to tell us something essential. MS