La Tristeza Complice - Extrait
Creators: Alain Platel
La Tristeza Complice (1995) features a variety of often burlesque figures reminiscent of street characters. As with Pina Bausch, Platel's great inspiration, the incarnation of realism bursts onto the stage, thwarting all the usual conventions of live performance and leaving a lasting impression on the spectator's imagination. The piece is built up in bursts through a multitude of sketches, and moves between a joyous popular festival and a gloomy ball. From a seemingly motley collection of practices, Platel finds the thread of a resilient humanity fighting for survival. Far from an elitist dance, Platel, before anyone else, will have staged the extreme vitality of an impoverished society with colorful characters whose virtuosity resembles the energy of despair. Already in La Tristeza Complice, bursts of the music of Henry Purcell (a 17th-century composer) appeared on the stage, and subsequently, the artist's approach consisted in popularizing the most learned music, right up to his Mozart Requiem, masterfully reconstructed by Fabrizio Cassol in 2018 and performed by a group of musicians from the four corners of the globe.
