Scarlett

Arthur Perole, 2015.

In his second piece, Arthur Perole folds and unfolds the multiple figures of the muse on a wall of mirrors with floating reflections. Sculptural icons, male and female, dreamlike and mysterious figures, elusive and fascinating like so many references drawn from our collective imagination, painting or cinema. Ancient goddesses or pop star… In a dark and brilliant stage design like a black diamond, they appear, pose, sway, set free, undulate to the rhythm of musical waves, bound to the whimsical musician. A proud solitary figure with his back to the audience.

The performance, hypnotic in its slow gestural and musical crescendo, raises the question of the look: who is looking at whom? who is being looked at? who is the conductor of the ballet? The quartet’s skilful interplay ceaselessly questions, unsettles, fascinates. Scarlett’s stage design and public perception shed light on the creative process in which dance and music, creator and muse, work and audience, belong to each other.