A Very Eye

“A Very Eye begins in the most beautiful way possible: with an absence, with a withdrawal, which reveals a presence, producing an unexpected ballet. (…)
By its strange luminosity, like the last fires of a world inducing the intuition of an irreparable loss, by its deceptive repetition as fascinating as it is hypnotic, by its varied speeds accommodating the differences of luminous states, A Very Eye projects us into a sensitive and rare experience of seeing: how in certain optical conditions, fleeting movements can show persistence, how the retinal persistence of images can generate sorts of residual traces in vision like so many blows of overlapping brushes creating these crossfades. The dance here embroiders its tapestry in a prodigious and subtle deployment of moiré effects. And we are overwhelmed with a rare emotion in front of a living, sumptuous work of eternal youth, summoning both the primitive beauty of a dance painted by Botticelli and the modern splendor of video artist Bill Viola.”

Nicolas Thevenot, Un fauteuil pour l’orchestre, 19.06.23

“In The Gyre, the same pattern of footsteps made the duo move around a central axis from which they never deviated. We find in A Very Eye this principle but extended to the six performers. From a common pattern of movement, such as electrons or elementary particles rotating and crossing around an invisible nucleus, they brush against each other or dodge each other, hold or touch each other in multiple variations. They do not take their eyes off each other, absorbed by the same perpetual movement regulated by the line. The choreographic composition is like a decorative motif living to the rhythm of contraction and expansion driven by the performers. The spaces between the bodies are as important as the design of the composition. It is between these interstitial spaces that the drawing of the motif can be traced. Minimal, geometric and organic, A Very Eye reveals all the sensuality of the body in a totally hypnotic immersive choreography.”

Filip Forestier, avoiretadanser.fr, 08.06.23

“Wishing to experiment and make sensitive the forces and the collective negotiations that take place in a group in perpetual motion, Angela Rabaglio and Micaël Florentz imagine a shared space where the movements of the dancers and the spectators intertwine, influence each other and coordinate intuitively within a continuous movement of interdependence. In this interview, Angela Rabaglio and Micaël Florentz share their research and present the creative process of A Very Eye.”

Interview by Wilson Le Personnic, maculture.fr, 04.06.2023

“A Very Eye, bath in beauty (…)
Both abstract and organic, geometric and wildly fluid, the piece explores the material that moves and offers itself to as many readings as there are people present to experience its metamorphoses, its synchronicities, its logics, its intersecting patterns.
“How do we negotiate to be together, how do we remain ourselves by forming a whole, but without blending into it”: these exploratory questions, worked on by six, give rise to multiple interpretations ranging from atomic physics to Arab-Andalusian architecture, from weaving to the dynamics of shoals of fish, from folklore dances to listening to trajectories.
With always in mind this eye evoking the cyclone as much as the look and its tenderness. And this unspeakable, essential magic: living together an intimate and unique moment.”

Marie Baudet, La Libre Belgique, 06.10.2022