S.thala: An Indian Suite

S.thala is the name of an imaginary location invented by famous 20th century French author Marguerite Duras. In the books and films of her Indian Cycle, the characters travel from one novel to the other often without sticking to a precise narrative, but referring as a leitmotiv to an initial event that happened during a ballroom party.

In this corpus, L’Amour is a mysterious non-linear fragmented text that evokes reiterated, transformed memories extracted from the organic magma of the Indian Cycle. In L’Amour the characters have been dislodged from the original books and projected into new narrative regions. A woman, a man, a traveller, a beggar, a rejected woman are among the somewhat anonymous characters inhabiting this ghostly world and its surrounding nature.

The choreography presents a first period of movement and space exploration inspired by the many physical indications and themes contained in Duras texts. These dance modules are accompanied by the reading of short passages from the text L’Amour. In a second period the dancers perform an elaborate piece constructed and extrapolated from the first part explored figures and recurring elements.

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