Philippe Decouflé

In a splendid mountain landscape of Savoy, while the rock is still snowy and the flowers appear in the meadows, colored characters evolve to Vivaldi’s music.

This production from Cirque du Soleil is a lyrical, fanciful, kinetic foray into the seventh art. Bringing together dance, acrobatics, live video, filmed sequences and animation, the show takes spectators on a fantastic voyage through the history of cinema and its genres, taking them into the heart of the movie-making process. From illustration to animation, black and white to colour, silent films to talkies, fixed shots to swooping camera movements, spectators witness the poetic construction/deconstruction of this art as an object and as a way of transcending reality.

Black and white short film by French choreographer Philippe Decouflé.

A stylized work by a choreographer and dancer, evoking a past world of nostalgic music, passing loves, and drinking and dancing establishments on the edge of Paris.