Sylphs are unearthly beings, a figment of the imagination of human beings and psychics caught between worlds (mainly between that of the dead and the living, but also that of fantasy and reality, of what is possible and what is not…). As it became a literary and choreographic craze respectively in the 18th and 19th century, the sylph figure still appears nowadays as a key and a major riddle in our imagination. As they question how material the body and afterlife are, as well as our relationship with the dead and their earthly bodies, the sylphs cast doubt on some great invariant aspects of Western thinking: dualism, linear time, rationalism…
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Sylphides
presentation
©Alain Monot
Half way between funeral rite and amphidromy (birth celebration), Sylphides looks set to be a literal reincarnation attempt. Through an approach that makes it possible to experience suspension of the vital functions, we intend to access a new understanding of our bodies and their potential annihilations and rebirths.
©Alain Monot
distribution
team
Cecilia Bengolea et François Chaignaud
conception
Cecilia Bengolea, François Chaignaud, Élisa Yvelin, Chiara Gallerani
performers
Erik Houllier
lighting design
Gildas Roudaut
lighting technician
Sothean Nhieim
styling
Berno Odo Polzer
dramaturgy collaboration
Mandorle productions (Chloé Perol, Jeanne Lefèvre, Emma Forster)
administration - production - national distribution
A PROPIC – Line Rousseau – Marion Gauvent
international distribution
Dayanis — Cécilia Bengolea
administration - production - diffusion
representations
Sylphides
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go to the event’s website. 
2017
2017
2014
2013
2012
2011
13.10.2011
14.10.2011
15.10.2011
21.10.2011
27.04.2012
28.04.2012
05.02.2013
06.02.2013
02.02.2014
04.09.2014
15.11.2014
15.03.2017
24.03.2017
co-production & production
Co-production
& production
co-productions
Le Quartz – Scène nationale de Brest, Le Merlan – Scène nationale de Marseille, Centre chorégraphique national de Franche-Comté à Belfort, Centre chorégraphique national Montpellier Languedoc Roussillon, La Ménagerie de verre – Paris (as part of the Studiolab research laboratory), Théâtre de l’Usine – Genève.
mandorle productions and dayanis
Mandorle productions is subsidized by the Ministère de la Culture (DRAC Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes) and the Région Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes.
François Chaignaud is an associate artist at Chaillot – Théâtre national de la Danse as well as the Maison de la danse and the Biennale de la danse de Lyon.