France, 2018, 52’
by Louise Narboni & Yoann Bourgeois
production Les Films Jack Fébus, Le Centre des Monuments Nationaux
with the participation of France Télévisions
in association with M MEDIA TV
creation, staging and scenography Yoann Bourgeois
costumes Sigolène Petey
performers Yurié Tsugawa (Prologue); Elise Legros & Jean-Yves Phuong (Inertia); Sonia Delbost-Henry (Trajectory); Estelle Clément-Béalem & Raphaël Defour (Balance); Yoann Bourgeois, Damien Droin, Emilien Janneteau, Lucas Struna (Energy)
music Franz Schubert
CCN2 – Grenoble National Choreography Center
The Great Ghosts is adapted from “The Mechanics of History, an attempt to approach a point of suspension”, a living exhibition at the Pantheon. On the occasion of the 3rd “Monuments in Movement” season, Yoann Bourgeois entered the Pantheon. Fixed to the highest point of the dome, Foucault’s famous pendulum provides the medium for a choreographic creation around movement and balance. Using four forms of spectacular apparatus – trampoline, turntable, precarious balancing and the famous “Seesaw of Levity”, now installed in the monument – the dancer-acrobats, Foucault’s pendulum and the audience are the actors in a totally original ambulatory show about the theme: the world knows no rest in time, space, bodies, desires.
