Chloé Moglia & Marielle Chatain | L’Oiseau-Lignes

Here, the common point is not a point, but a line. A hyphen. A line, which immediately extends, grows in the middle, splits and multiplies. Lines of trajectories, chains and wefts, lines of sight, of reverie, of melody or of writing... And of drawing, of course, because "to draw", according to Paul Klee, "is to follow a line that has gone for a walk", and the line that takes off becomes a trace and a line, the outline of an existence. The Bird-Lines is like a dance between different dimensions. Between the abrupt verticality of a blackboard and the horizontality of a white bar oscillating above the stage. Between the visible movements of a body and the music that seems to envelop them, retranscribe them, and revive them. Or between the lightness of an abstract purity and a very concrete game with danger... Chloé Moglia went to circus school so that she could, she says, continue climbing trees. But the trapeze has never been for her, in the same way as the martial arts, only a stage or a means of defending "an embodied thought", tying together meaning and sensitivity. The law of gravitation, the vertigo and the risk above the void, the fragility of balances that sometimes only hold on to a breath, are all resources that she plays with to share with us her "singular exploration of suspension" and to draw from it "like a combination of weight and dream". From the ground, Marielle Chatain accompanies her, reinventing each time a score that we feel is crossed by flights, vibrations and swirls, abundant lines of life.