Life twists
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And this year the festivities began on Montjuïc with Le Petit Cirque, the stage version created by Marie Bourgeois and Yoann Bourgeois of the album Saisons by French singer-songwriter Pomme, the stage name of Claire Pommet. The album, released in 2024, is a delicate work, like her voice and the guitar strumming that sometimes accompanies her, as well as conceptual. The instrumentation takes us back to a romantic past, when it was believed that even shadows had their own identity. Its stage version has proven to be stimulating at times, although with a broken thread, as you feel it's the perfect setting for music that embraces you, caresses you, and whispers the breezes and winds of life, but everything is lost at times, due to a lack of fluidity.
Yes, raindrops also made an appearance and led to the momentary halt of the show in its session prior to the premiere, the one we are discussing here. A shame, because it broke the dreamlike aura with which the scenes enveloped us, turn after turn. But sadly, the discontinuity wasn't just this one. Why turns? Through the seasons of the title, the concept of the performance, symbolized on stage by a revolving platform that occupied the center stage, on which, at certain moments, the dancers illustrated with their beautiful steps the encounters and disagreements of life, the imperfect times, the unexpected synchronicities, as well as the ups and downs of fear and desire...even the farewells.
A string quartet crowned the scene, and Pomme, like Pierrot, strolled through the white theater, caressing our ears from season to season. The subtle instrumentation enhanced the dancers' movements, on land and air, not sea, although dreams can do anything. We dream, and we exist, if only for an instant, or a few instants. Something was missing, although the beauty was there.
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