choreography:Maguy Marin

coreography staged by Dorothée Delabie

music: Ludwig van Beethoven, Die Grosse Fuge, op.133

costumes: Chantal Cloupet
light design: Alexandre Béneteaud
assistant: Enrico Morelli

interpreters: MM Contemporary Dance Company (4 dancers)

duration: 20 min.

The piece can also be performed with live music.

Four women and an extraordinary piece of music like Die Grosse Fuge: Maguy Marin’s personal reading of Ludwig van Beethoven’s work, considered a milestone in the relationship between classical music and contemporary dance, is based on a constant, intimate dialogue between dance and music, on a profound connection between the two arts.

Created in 2001 for C.ie Maguy Marin, it is performed again in the interpretation of four dancers from the MM Contemporary Dance Company. From the meeting between the four women and the music, a complexity takes shape between the growing vital force of the female being and the state of enthusiasm and desperation of this score. The dance becomes a euphoric explosion of energy, where the four performers, dressed in red, in an almost frenetic alternation, jump, run, collapse, get up again in a vital and frenetic whirlwind. A metaphor of life that becomes a vortex and an exciting race against death, where the vertigo of the end itself leads us to always want to run madly without breath, to live every moment as if it were the last moment. An overwhelming and moving work, a moment of pure emotion.