Marie-Agnès Gillot, Mermoz Melchior, Laura Arend

In connection with the exhibition Vu[e]s de dos, une figure sans portrait, choreographer Laura Arend imagines a dance, a back-to-back, like an alliance between star dancer Marie-Agnès Gillot and Mermoz Melchior, a remarkable performer with Israel's renowned Batsheva Dance Company.
Dance Company.

Laura Arend gives a person's name to each of her creations. As if to better embody the imaginary. Here, Victor refers to Hugo and his famous hunchback from Notre-Dame de Paris. In this encounter between two exceptional dancers, the back becomes the backbone of a language that evokes our invisible burdens, muscular memory, the nobility of a straight back and the tenderness of an offered back. Two bodies, two generations. She is the icon and the memory, the grace held over the years. He is the new breath, the gentle rebellion. Between them, the contrast melts into a striking back-to-back, like an ode to the dignity of those who bend without breaking.