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LA ROQUE D'ANTHERON (3)

Festival La Roque d'Antheron (3)

Saburo Teshigawara and Rihoko Sato, contemporary dance

F rancesco Schlimé Tristano, piano

Snatched from the burning temple Lourmarin, the softness of the cloud and nostalgic game Zhu Xiao Mei , after strolling dinner and a little corner table this village Discount Camus, his last remains, then it returns the heart of La Roque, moving toward the outdoor theater Florans Park when the sun softens languid evening the curtains rose plant trees. The piano festival opens for the first time to dance.

gestures of music and musical gestures

Luxembourg-born, Barcelona adoption the young pianist Francesco Tristano Schlimé is preceded by a reputation for originality, even iconoclastic, who dares to claim two loves, if not his country and Paris, but Bach and techno music. After all, nothing shocking about it long and thin leprechaun, T shirt and hair crazy look and figure wisp modern, sharing the taste of his generation, although rooted in his time without denying the past. One imagines also that the atmosphere of the ever innovative and experimental Barcelona, wild Ibiza where he does not hesitate to play the DJ, is conducive to mixtures unusual, eclectic and heterogeneous, large open window on directories too often mummified by naphthalene tradition.

Here he is here, busy as an elf looked up at his piano open, hitting the strings in his hand, stopping the vibration of the plate on the other, tapping the fingers an ostinato bass, throbbing. A left eye on a computer, kid today, but highly learned, it controls other sounds chirping, chattering, surprising, coming from who knows where, piano, space? to music sure.

And while black is the body Teshigawara is perceived, furtive shadow in a corner of the stage. A body? Probably, but who would have received the grace of a skeleton elastic, which makes one forget his rigid architecture by destructuring which seems to limit potential harm: wave ripples silhouette, wandering gestures decomposed into waves, then the more rhythmic music, that would a plasticity in the effects of cinema from idle to acceleration, body jerking, sacked, suddenly recaptured in accelerated angles, angulosities members.

On another reason for the piano, more tender, wispy white shirt over black pants, strange hesitating butterfly, flower float, appears the woman, Sato Rihoko , more gestures, in the weightless space or as a thin silk scarf hanging in calm water. Peace, serenity, on the edge of audible music and sensitive gestures to the borders of immobility. No embrace in self-concordant figures. The scraping of strings suddenly electrified bodies, they are a spin on Bach's trills, the gavotte gesticulating, jitter Leg in white and black, both dancers are visual notes, such as travel and manipulation of the pianist are gestural marks.

Audacity and grace of a rare show of quality. Thirty years for Roque: eternal youth, teenager here.

July 25, 2010

Castle Park Florans

Schlimé Francesco Tristano, piano,

Saburo Teshigawara and Rihoko Sato, dance.

Improvisations; Bach Partita for keyboard No. 6 in E minor BWV 830.

Photos: Xavier Antoinet.