Pneuma Carolyn Carlson music Gavin Bryars Ballet of the Opéra National de Bordeaux 2014 1080p

The value of an image can be measured by the extent of its imaginary halo. Thanks to the imaginary, the imagination is essentially open, evasive. The experience itself of opening, of novelty, is in the human psyche. That is how Bachelards The Air and the Dreams begins, a work that inspired Carolyn Carlsons Pneuma. Dancers of the Ballet of the Opéra National de Bordeaux dress sometimes in black, sometimes in white, moving in vast tableaux in time with Gavin Bryarss slowmoving music. A tree suspended in the sky, and the sporadic appearance of individuals like an unearthly woman or Icarus make up a staging of incredible meaning, an approach reminiscent of Bob Wilsons work. Carolyn Carlson, Choreographer Rémi Nicolas, Lighting, Stage sets Philip Jeck, Electroacoustic composer Ballet de l Opéra National de Bordeaux Eric Quillère, Ballet master Orchestre National de Bordeaux Aquitaine PieterJelle de Boer, Conductor