Arise, Danser Canal Historique

Under the irresistible upward pull of the Sainte-Chapelle vault, Christian and François Ben Aïm, Louis Gillard and musician Piers Faccini enter into a dialogue with death, resurrection and the afterlife, offering their own reading of religious motifs. For Arise is a dance trio for four artists in communion, designed for places with a high spiritual content. The bodies and the music merge into a transcendental whole, as if drawn by a call for air from above or from a great distance. We can therefore imagine Arise as much under the celestial vault, without any stained glass windows in between…
Christian and François Ben Aïm have taken up the challenge of this place with its grandiose dimensions and décor, and therefore comparable to the Cour d’Honneur of the Palais des Papes, in an apparent contradiction, namely by intensifying the link with the ground to better reveal the vertical infinity, without being crushed by it. On the contrary, the poetry of their presence adds to that of the place, opening up intimate spaces, distilling the emotions which, faced with the place itself, can give way to vertigo.