Description

Marie-Claude Pietragalla and Julien Derouault have created a choreographic fresco on human resilience, a journey from chaos to light.<div> Beethoven's Symphony No. 7 opens the piece with the collapse of the world. Its tragic pulse becomes the breath of a humanity in disarray, confronted with loss, the fall of certainties, the collapse of its bearings. The vibrant movement of bodies expresses the tension between struggle and surrender—the beauty of defeat, the poetry of disaster.</div><div> Then comes Ravel's Boléro: a persistent, repetitive rhythm, carrying a new impetus. It is the reconstruction of the world. The dancers reinvent their movements, rebuild their connections, redefine their humanity. This rebirth is inspired by Albert Camus's The Myth of Sisyphus: accepting the absurdity of the human condition and finding in the very act of striving a form of grandeur.</div><div> Between collapse and rebirth, After the Fall offers a sensory and philosophical experience, where music and gesture unite to tell the story of the inexhaustible capacity of human beings to rise again.</div>