Boris Charmatz – (terrain) Somnole

UK Premiere. Boris Charmatz explores the idea of somnolence – the feeling of being on the brink of sleep. After a series of group performances and collective events, and in contrast to his work infini, he returns to the minimalist format of dance solos. Accompanied only by the sheer sound of whistling, melodies surface, blend and break apart. The relationship between the sound and the movement is in turn deliberate, halting, sleepy and acute. Somnole is a vaporous dance that unites familiar melodies and slumberous gestures. Like a body seeking sleep, Boris Charmatz invents an insomniac dance, a refuge of rhythms and refrains at the frontier between wakefulness and sleep.