Boris Charmatz. SOMNOLE

After Manger, 20 danseurs pour le XXe siècle et plus encore, then Aatt enen tionon and Herses last season, choreographer Boris Charmatz presents Somnole at Bozar, an intimate performance exploring movement suspended between wakefulness and sleep. Alone on stage, he delivers a singular performance in which breath, whispers, and the quivering of the body become the instruments of an inner dance. This minimalist, introspective piece summons up a gentle physicality that is almost imperceptible, but of great intensity. In an age overloaded with information, where time seems to be racing ahead, Somnole prefers slowness, ambiguity, and almost nothing.

At the heart of this piece is the poetry of sleep - a fragile territory, often relegated to the shadow of productivity. Charmatz gives dreams and drowsiness a creative and sensory force, like an invitation to give value back to this state of half-consciousness. This choreographic reverie is reminiscent of The sleep of reason produces monsters (No. 43), a famous engraving by Francisco Goya, presented at Bozar in the Luz y sombra exhibition this autumn. Goya and Spanish realism. As with Goya, Boris Charmatz explores the porosity between reality and imagination, where sleep, far from being an escape, becomes an opening, another way of seeing the world.

Credits 

Choreography and performance - Boris Charmatz

Choreographic assistant - Magali Caillet Gajan

Lights - Yves Godin

Costumes collaboration - Marion Regnier

Vocal work - Dalila Khatir

With the advice of Médéric Collignon and Bertrand Causse

General stage manager - Fabrice Le Fur

Production - Terrain