Museum Night 2013

A memory of another journey; a eulogy to slowness.
On Museum Night, in the midst of the visitors striding up and down the nave of the Musée d'Orsay, beneath the great clock of the former station, seven dancers from the Myriam Gourfink dance company trace out their own path, slowly creating a furrow, external and internal, leaving a physical and symbolic impression behind them.

On the theme of a straight line, the fragile and imaginary trajectory formed by the dancers’ bodies invites the visitor to take a different route to understanding the artworks, just as Fernand Cormon, Claude Monet, Auguste Rodin, Antoine Bourdelle and Piet Mondrian present the viewer with a biblical, bucolic, heroic or invisible path.

Myriam Gourfink’s choreography explores time and the physicality of movement in a unique way. Dancers, paintings and sculptures co-exist in harmony, united in a gesture, a breath or a new dialogue, and in one never-ending movement – that of creation.

Byways, choreography by Myriam Gourfink

With Clément Aubert, Carole Garriga, Kevin Jean, Deborah Lary, Julie Salgues, Nina Santes and Véronique Weil  

Nicolas Delaigue will accompany the dancers on the tanpura, a traditional instrument used in Indian classical music.