Morphose company

Duration : 50 min
 Création 2019

Chorégraphie : Soraya Thomas
  Interprétation : Maëva Curco-Llovera, Sarah Dunaud, Amélie Pialot, Claudio Rabemananjara
 Conception scénographique : Soraya Thomas, Frédéric Dussoulier, Thierry  Th Desseaux 

Création musicale : Thierry Th Desseaux, Frédéric Dussoulier   (guitare) 

Costumes : Isabelle Gastellier
 

Human migration at the heart of an ambitious and urban dance project.
Drawing  inspiration from the great migration of monarch butterflies that travel  thousands of kilometres each year, Soraya Thomas and her dancers  explore the notion of departure, crossing, survival and the unknown. Putting  human migration into the abyss, La Révolte des papillons puts the body  at the centre of a device adapted to urban spaces. The performers reveal their individualities within the collective in a circular device of great magnitude. Like a flow in the city, Soraya Thomas’s dance echoes a world in motion. Subtle and committed.

Texte © Leu Tempo 2019

Trained at the Conservatoire d'Annecy (direction: Jean-Marc Boitière),  Soraya Thomas obtained her State Diploma in dance education in 2000,  before joining the company Coline, professional insertion cell for young  contemporary dancers. There she met Jeanclaude Gallotta, Michel  Kéléménis and Myriam Burns, for whom she took on roles. In 2002, she  arrived at La Réunion where she met the choreographer Eric Languet. With  him, she participated in the projects Interludes, Faux-ciels and  L'Esprit et la ruche, and danced in Chemins faisant, On était tous là  pour s'aider et Somewhere, out there, life was screaming. In 2007, she performed her first choreography in William Shakespeare’s  Le Songe d'une nuit d'été for the Sakidi company, before signing her  first play.

Created by Soraya Thomas in 2011 in La Réunion, the company Morphose  places contemporary dance, the sound universe and the intersection of  artistic disciplines at the center of its projects. She explores the  link between intimate space and public space in a work of choreographic  creation based on the centre, succession, relationship to the other and  space. The urban space and the street are the place of the daily  contemporary movement, so dear to the choreographer. The process is to  give them back what they offer us every day: inspiration. We dance on  the asphalt that we walk every day without paying attention to it, here  we tell with the bodies. The bodies work in volume, anchorage and  ability to react with everyday life. Each of Morphose’s creations involves talented performers and creators. Their collaboration gives rise to singular works where the work consists in bringing societal questions to the stage. It is a question of starting from the real, from the concrete, to tend towards a choreographic and aesthetic transposition. It results from strong and living pieces, in which humanity is at the heart of artistic purpose. Dance is purely and simply an art of the living, it touches the intimate and makes it universal. The energies speak for themselves. With  duality, poetry, humanity and animality, through a streamlined  movement, the Morphose dance tells us about life, about others with  others, and takes us into a spiral as rock as delicate, to offer a dance  to the public, and to deposit on these common places, for a moment,  another look.