Caroline Cornélis - Cie Nyash (Belgium)

Llum is fascinating a show for a dancer and a light manipulator. Between enchantment, shadow and light, Llum invites us into an imaginary and poetic world.

Cie Nyash takes the viewer on a journey between the very small, the tiny and the very large. By bringing the work of light out of the shadows, Llum sculpts and reveals what usually does not show itself. Light becomes an element of play, interaction and relationship. 

The lights cross the stage and come to life thanks to the movements of Caroline Cornélis and the expert fingers of Frédéric Vannes. From their unique union, a radiant dance, a shadow theatre and a new light, are born.

She’s dancing, he’s doing the lights. Sometimes she steps into the light, sometimes she steps out. Sometimes he casts light on her body, sometimes he doesn’t cast it anywhere. One day their bodies touch each other under the light and then she dances like never before and then he works the lights like never before. 

-Laurence Vielle, La Roseraie

A dazzling show.

Prize: “Coup de coeur de la presse" - Rencontres Théâtre jeune public de Huy 2021.

^{"When light becomes a puppet.
The award for the most surprising material and subject matter unquestionably goes to the nyash company. With Llum (...) choreographer Caroline Cornélis has chosen to create a show using light as its primary material. this intangible yet ubiquitous element becomes most fascinating puppet to animate. Effecting the perfect osmosis between dance, music and text, Llum also resolves one of the oldest paradoxes of stage performance: the obligation that the lighting engineer should remain hidden in the dark. Here, the man who operates the light not only finds his rightful place on stage, in plain view, but provides an equally crucial contribution to the manifold sparks of this miraculous show as the choreographer. With his projectors of all sizes, frédéric Vannes magically sculpts the luminous ravings of the choregraphy (...).
Llum speaks to all our senses, acting on the audience the same way the sight of a sunflower warms our skin (...)."}

^{-Catherine Makereel, Le Soir}

^{"Llum, a whispered children’s story told with dance.
Sometimes, you just get mornings like this, opening the third day of the rencontres théâtre jeune public, when Llum, close to the latin for “light”, unexpectedly rose and travelled through the early fog to brighten up the souls and raise the enthusiasm of the spectators. A genuine highlight (...).  Lit up by her life partner Frédéric Vannes, choreographer and dancer caroline cornélis moves through the shadow to celebrate all the languages of light (...).
Her choreography translates her fascination for light as a material and as an object, and for its sculpting, revealing, and tactile qualities as it twirls, shifts, disappears, draws or hides outlines and shapes.
With light yet resolved steps, with supple yet precise gestures, the dancer explores those fragments without which life couldn’t emerge, shares her delicateness (...) and above all that of the children, from age 4 or 5, whispering a danced story in their ears — reminding us how meaningful this medium is for this age group."
-Laurence Bertels, La Libre}

BIO

After a performing career with Frédéric Flamand, Paulo Ribeiro and Michèle Noiret, Caroline Cornélis discovered dance for young audiences with the IOTA company in 1998. Ever since, she has continually sought to familiarize young people with the language of contemporary dance. in 2006, she founded Nyash and produced La Petite Dame and Tout ce qui nous sépare. Since 2010, in partnership with Miko Shimura, she has developed and perfected her research with young audiences. Together, they produced Kami and Terre Ô (prix du ministre de l’enfance, huy, 2013). Currently touring europe, Stoel (2015) is her first collaboration with musical directors Claire Goldfarb and Arne Van Dongen (Prix du Ministre de l’Enfance and press mention). in the wake of this production, Caroline created 10:10, a show exploring the potential poetic relationships residing in everyday objects. As an artist, Caroline also develops projects that seek to bring dance into schools, besides that, she is also provides professional training to teachers.

_CREDITS

_{Created and performed by: Caroline Cornélis e Frédéric Vannes Artistic collaboration: Marielle Morales Sound creation: Claire Goldfarb Piano: Jean Jadin Texts and voice: Laurence Vielle Lighting design: Frédéric Vannes Stage design: Anne Mortiaux Costumes: Aline Breucker Photography: Alice Khol Diffusion: Ad Lib - Anna Giolo Coproduction: Charleroi Danse, Centre Chorégraphique de Wallonie-Bruxelles Support: Ministère de la Fédération Wallonie-Bruxelles (Service de la danse), Les Chiroux - Centre culturel de Liège, Théâtre de Liège, La Roseraie, La Montagne Magique, Ékla - Centre Scénique de Wallonie pour l’enfance et la jeunesse, Mars - Mons Arts de la Scène, Centre Culturel Braine l’Alleud, Les Abattoirs de Bomel - Centre Culturel de Namur, La Guimbarde}

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