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Oh, you don’t know how much I like theatre companies that have a multilayered approach to the art (and life too)…

I’ve never thought that urban and slightly linguistically disoriented but totally poetic bard (a combination of Homer arisen from asphalt and mid 70s’ version of Bonnie Prince Billy adapted for the theatre stage) might tell me a profound story about life…

Well, exactly this happened to me on Monday evening while I was watching the first performance at Dance Week Festival by Swiss/ French Dance Company 7273.

I saw some creatures, three beautiful creatures in their small microcosm…

Photo: Michel Cavalca (c)

I saw a Yetti , a militant bush with legs (nature’s keeper just jumped in from ancient Roman mythology) and a girl (not the Alice in Wonderland syndrome, no, no… but a girl not decided yet whether she should stay a retentive and innocent mediator or not!)… they let me in…

Those storiez which they’ve shared with the rest of the world are hardly to be described in our language (the one that you and me are using…see…)

Smart people are saying that myths and phantasmagorias are timeless… it’s a kind of a subspace existing parallel with our world… sometimes those dimensions get in touch, sometimes even interfere… but most of the time we don’t mess with each other… are we?

Photo: Michel Cavalca (c)

Despite the fact that we are the heiresses of all those mythical creatures… but due to some technical mistakes (oh, it was long time ago… well, we… the human race… we simply failed while trying to build the Tower of Babel…)… we barely can understand each other…

Choreographers Laurence Yadi and Nicolas Cantillon presented to us a small microcosm of a possible existing galaxy spinning somewhere among millions of similar but only with other acteurs…

Their galaxy awakened, as I’ve mentioned before, a kind of a mid 70’s atmosphere… but also showed as that we are the creators of our own myths…

Photo: Michel Cavalca (c)

They’ve showed us that even we who desire their world, we live in our world almost under the same patherns… with a small difference, we are definitely getting old and not dealing with reality most of the time, but with the fact that many things in our lives are brought to us because we perceive it in a particular way…

The dramaturgy of Laï Laï Laï Laï dance piece is just as minimalistic as if the whole piece was made as unifying, undividable structure…

I think that the writer Italo Calvino would find Company 7273 as absolute locators of his semantic poetic which he described in my favourite book Cosmicomics… his narrator Qfwfq would probably be extremely happy to meet them… or maybe they’ve met before?

Photo: Michel Cavalca (c)

I really wanted to enjoy more in the piece, hope the next one will be longer… please please please please…

p.s. (taken from Company’s official page:
Two or three things I know about Company 7273
They dislike:
Fast food, emphasis on appearances, dumbing down, things that are cut and dried, being mistaken for Laurent and Nicole, tickling the audience where it does not hurt, people taking themselves too seriously, having to sell themselves, intimidation.

They like:
Impossible challenges, Milky Ways, messing up programmes, banging on about their obsessions, getting the musicians to dance, clarity, instability, living with contradictions, fish out of water, dreaming of heaven, dance as an experience which produces something real.
A strange company, looking for the meaning of dance – dance which happens, which is invented as and when it takes place, which leaves marks in the sand.)