Core Meu' Les Ballets de Monte-Carlo - Festival Vaison Danses

Backed by the extraordinary Antonio Castrignanò and his musicians, the energy of this "mass" of dancers spinning to the sound of the tamburello takes us straight back to the origins of dance.

In the heart of the white villages of Salento, with the azure Mediterranean as a backdrop, the inhabitants defied the church - which condemned the dance for its eroticism - by making tarantella a remedy supposed to cure tarantula bites; the species present in Puglia is in fact harmless...

Once the ban had been circumvented, the villagers could devote themselves to this popular dance, which combines trance and seduction, to the point of exhaustion. Love, the desire that consumes bodies, and death, the outlines of which we can already make out... this is the furrow that Jean-Christophe Maillot has been digging for forty years. Here again, his choreography alternates moments of soothing sensuality with sequences of pure physical debauchery. Rising in intensity throughout the show, "Core Meu" ("My Heart") celebrates the intoxication of dance and delivers a Dionysian finale, at the end of which the fifty dancers collapse as one body.

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