Les yeux mi-clos
(Eyes half shut)

with Jérôme d’Orso, Manuela Martella

Duo for two dancers and a pillow.

As the world matelizes, putting up weapons and armor,
we put a feather pillow under our heads.

As societies virtualize, we dance the symbiotic relationship
of two bodies’ intimacy.

And daily rhythms accelerate to a frenzy,
we play just where the eyes close to fall asleep,
and drift on the alpha waves.

In a dream like state, the duo glides, levitates, and vaults,
navigating between the tenderness of taking care
and the humour of bickering, before the ice breaks on
the overturning waves of commotion.