« La Machine », a contemporary dance terminal

Valeria Giuga takes several scores of the famous ballet « Afternoon of a Faun » and creates « Faune Faune Faune ».  

For this piece, Valeria Giuga and Noëlle Simonet work on the original score of Nijinsky’s version and that of Kurt Jooss (1966) created for two exceptional performers, Pina Bauch and Jean Cébron, at the Folkwangballet in Essen. A score of Jerôme Robbins « Afternoon of a Faun » (1953) will complete the corpus of works, these three versions being the only ones noted to date.  

From these three scores they extract the single figure of the faun, as Lifar once did, in order to create a solo that repeats and transforms itself like a recurring and heady dream. 

In each of these choreographies, the faun begins and ends lying down in exactly the same place on the stage, alone. He could then repeat his dance over and over again until he completes it with perseverance. 

The first and second « faun » are reworkings of the original works, first Nijinky’s and then Jooss’ version, the third is a rewriting that mixes the sources and blurs the lines. The music that will accompany this rewriting is a recomposition of Ryūichi Sakamoto’s music. Composed in 2002, it is a mix of electronic and acoustic sounds and snippets of the text of Stéphane Mallarmé’s poem