Heliosfera

‘A beautiful scenographic creation: if smoke machines are currently being used sparingly on theatre stages, Vânia Vaneau knows how to make use of them.
‘Among other stunningly successful effects, a fiery red light, comparable to the red of the forge, coats the hand and forearm of each dancer like a glove (...) Heliosfera is a definitive spellbinder, culminating in a shower of phosphorescent dust that makes for a successful visual experience.

‘Vânia Vaneau is no longer on stage in her new creation Heliosfera, but she leads her quartet into an infinite space shrouded in a magnificent spectral light. An ultra-sensitive journey into unknown lands with a few remnants of a vanished earth’.
‘The dancers rediscover their limbs through contact with the material of light, which is central here and used with remarkable finesse. It stalks the dancers, hides them, allows them to get up and be reborn, blinds and illuminates them, asphyxiates them, makes them tremble, mechanises them, breaks them down, brings them together, slows them down, frightens them in very different ways.
‘Vânia Vaneau is continuing this increasingly refined work, which touches on marvels’.

But it's a masterstroke: the stage lights have been given a new role. Written by Abigail Fowler, who is working with the choreographer for the third time, the lighting is not only a resource for the show, but also a dancer in its own right.

‘A powerful work based around light, which seems to be one with the artists on stage and becomes a performer in its own right, a moving form that creates a world in the process of mutation.
‘For this new piece, Heliosfera, Vânia Vaneau is working with light. The choreographer, who leaves the stage to four dancers, takes brilliant hold of this abstract and inherently elusive material. She creates a world of her own, moving around the dancers.
‘Then the dance becomes organic and virtuoso, very physical, earthy, at one with the changing lights in an atmosphere that sounds like the beginning or the end of a world. The image is striking, the moment hypnotic. So many things could be told’.

‘Vital energy, chromatic diffraction, immaterial and solar force, Heliosfera makes light the essential substance of its creation’.

Vânia creates a dazzling atmosphere on stage that encourages contemplation, summoning up astronomy and mythologies linked to the sun.