Illusions

It's a festival of special effects: bodies glitter, shimmer, and sparkle. Pale, reddish light becomes increasingly intense and at the same time more abstract. A spiral rises above the head of a seated being that appears to be electrically charged. Glitter trickles from the ceiling, covering the naked bodies. Swathes of fog drift down a kind of dune, spreading a feeling of polar cold where, just a short time before, a community wandered in the desert, remembering a well that once provided them with water. After Vessel and Planet [wanderer], Mirage is the third stage collaboration between Damien Jalet and Kohei Nawa, the Japanese star of the current art scene. And the fourth overall, if you include the film Mist, created with dancers from the NDT. The two are a perfectly coordinated team, ...