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“Les Fantômes du temps” — Música: Kaija Saariaho & Jean-Baptiste Barrière — Coreografia: Jean-Claude Gallotta.

A man (Jean-Claude Gallotta) questions his reflection in a mirror. The reflection of a woman (Mathilde Altaraz) superimposes itelf. He attemps to follow her on the other side of the mirror, searches for her face among all the characters he encounters and all the situations he crosses. This mirror indeed does not send back a slavish reflection, it is an interpreter, it exists by iself, has a life of its own. Its images are transforming all the time, and let perceive an other side, beyond the mirror, in which everyone is projected.

The mirror then becomes a gate, opening on territories where protagonists find themselves transported. These worlds, oniric and sensual, make them to discover japanese gardens, chinese rivers, improbable spaces inhabited by our fantasms of the other : the ghosts of time. (…)

(Kaija Saariaho — Compositora do Ano — Musical America 2008 Awards.)