Tous les hommes dansent

Celui qui apprendra à voler
donnera à la terre un nom nouveau,
il l’appellera légère.
F. Nietzsche, Zarathoustra

Zad Moultaka is obsessed with lost worlds. A dull concern about the disappearance leaves him no break. This tension is reflected in great concentration and extreme power in his musical expression. Here, through a refined electroacoustic and videographic work, a studied lighting scenography with the help of five virtual singers, a tenor and two instrumentalists, an epic tale is created, a poetic mythology in a theatrical form.

The tale is inspired by the testimony of Sir Laurens Van der Post, South African explorer and philosopher, from his book The Lost World of Kalahari.

The composer pays tribute to an ancestral culture erased, the Bushmen world decimated by colonization and globalization since the late eighteenth century. By exploring their language with clicks, their imaginary, their poetry, he invites us to question our own world, our gestures and our relationship to nature. A back and forth work between presence and absence, play on the two movements of speech, on the two aspects of reality, the real and its simulacra: visions, shadows, echoes … We will not see any dancer on stage, the dance is a metaphor for the joy of the quest, announcing the upcoming of its spurt.

The instrumentalists, the singer become the true protagonists of the adventure. The decor, the sound and visual projections, the light, everything participates here in an art of metamorphosis.
Catherine Peillon