The Dream of Flying, the Contemporary Art in La Turbie

There has always been in me and you the dream to fly. This is the inner nature that nourishes our souls in trying to be more than we are and exceed our limits.

I met the artistic expression of this dream while visiting the Auguste Trophy monument in La Turbie. On an amazing landscape having Monaco and its surroundings at its feet, filled with green grass and blue sky, closer to the clouds, an artistic set up was prepared. The Compagnie Yoann Bourgeois performed a contemporary dance show, mostly for me an emotional and artistic thrill to be discovered right in the middle of history.

The idea of mixing art with historical monuments under the theme "Monuments in Movement" is a national programme that wants to link this places filled with historical energy with the power of art and its forms of expression. This way, it has been created the ambulatory scene that hosts four choreographers that create emotions in unique places. They can be seen on the Pantheon / Abbaye de Cluny / Basilique cathedrale Saint-Denis, Place fort de Mont-Dauphin / Trophee d'Auguste a la Turbie, Chateau d'Azay-le-Rideau / Palais Jacques Coeur a Bourges, Chateau de Chateaudun.

For the mis en scene at La Turbie, the idea of flying was created by the Compagnie Yoann Bourgeois and the desire to be up there in the sky in the subtle sensation of floating by its two choreographers. On a white scenery with the two choreographers in black, the contrast was created. With the movements and jumping and lifting up from a trampoline the idea of falling and rising was created. The music pertruted perfectly the dream, sometimes untouchable, sometimes so close. At the edge of being up in the sky, the joy and sharing are there. The note of humour is offered at the end of the show, where the two choreographers jump but, as it happens sometimes in life, men don't know how to fly...

A moment of pure artistic emotion that I saluted with great enthusiasm.

It is a fantastic idea of finding art and pure emotions right in the middle of historic places filled with such an amazing energy!

Editor Andra Oprea