Sharon Eyal ignites Chaillot with a stunningly sensual Chapter 3

Sharon Eyal offers at the Théâtre national de Chaillot an ode to captivating and invigorating sensuality, with House, Latin and Oriental accents, to the bewitching music of Ori Lichtik.

There was a time when Gai Behar, a very loyal collaborator of Sharon Eyal, reigned supreme over the Telavivian nightlife. In Tel Aviv, Eyal danced for the Batsheva before embarking on an international career as a choreographer. In 2013, the two accomplices founded LEV, which saw the birth OCD Love and Love Chapter 2, the first two opuses which precede this Chapter 3: The Brutal Journey of the Heart. We find in the last part of the love trilogy the taste for clubbing, magnificently distilled by the music of Ori Lichtik, and the fluid and precise movements dear to the father of Gaga, Ohad Naharin.

The choreographer immerses her eight extraordinary performers in showers of warm light that magnify their smooth movements and curved lines. Dressed in a second skin created by Maria Grazia Chiuri, giving the effect of a tattoo, the dancers evolve, at times, in a green atmosphere, where the bodies take on cadaverous appearances, or red, which envelops them in a lively passion. Eros and Thanatos are there. The half-points mark an erotic preciousness, brought from the end of the hips. The bodies occupy the entire stage where they hug, touch, caress. We sometimes hear the rhythm marked by the deep and muscular voice of Clyde Emmanuel.

The marbled skin draws like a map of Tenderness which would make the dancers move on stage, animated by this romantic journey as charming as it is voluptuous. In this carnal joy, Guido Dutilh embodies a faun of a power and a grace close to a Jorge Donn doubled by a David Bowie. Excelling in movements inspired by tango, Alice Godfrey capsizes the room already won over by this enjoyable show.

Chapter 3 of this love journey also aspires to spirituality: an oriental soundtrack and a group in a trance tint this show with an ethereal grace. The bodies act out all the romantic stories, get drunk on the trappings of passion, but also on a welcome serenity, and thus revisit a total story of love, enchanting and remarkably embodied.

Photo credits: © Stefan Dotter