Mathilde Potier, violin
Pierre Liscia-Beaurenaut, violin
Jean-Baptiste Souchon-Graziani, viola
Madeleine Douçot, cello
With the dancers of the company Les Schini’s
Choreography: Mélodie Cecchini and Gaëtan Boschini
From the fiery rhythms of Béla Bartók to the sound textures of Sofia Gubaidulina, via the dreamlike world of Henri Dutilleux, Métamorphoses whirl like a quartet that has broken free! A semi-finalist of the Vibre! Competition 2025 and currently in residence in Bordeaux, the young ensemble captivates with its “dramatic richness” (Pierre Gervasoni) and its “passionate and committed” playing (Remy Franck).
At the Agora du Haut-Carré in Talence, they invite the Bordeaux-based contemporary dance company Les Schini’s, whose work blends physicality, theatricality, and musicality. Their choreographic language explores contrasting states, from fluid gestures to more raw and offbeat forms.
Bartók will open the evening with his third quartet, the shortest of the six, marked by tight polyphony, a completely novel form, and extraordinary rhythmic inventiveness. Russian composer Sofia Gubaidulina follows with her third quartet, written in 1987, in which senz’arco reigns supreme. Showers of pizzicati, at first delicate then increasingly feverish, end up inducing a kind of vertigo, weaving music and dance into a single breath. Finally, the enigmatic sonorities of Dutilleux’s only quartet, balancing harmony and timbre, will sketch out a nocturnal, incantatory, and cosmological world.
Program :
Dialogue between string quartet & contemporary dance
Béla Bartók — String Quartet No. 3
Sofia Gubaidulina — String Quartet No. 3
Henri Dutilleux — Ainsi la nuit
