Je prends feu trop souvent

Half animal and half human, the Faun of Mallarmé’s poem (1876), of Debussy’s symphonic composition (1894), and of Nijinski’s choreographic work (1912), exists outside any historical context, holding a mirror up to those present-day beings caught up in the transient and intense condition of adolescence. With breaking voices, instability, dreams and impulses...To give form to this essential turbulence – under the original title of Faun/ve, later changed to Je prends feu trop souvent –, the Nyash company has conceived an echo chamber: a circular stage space, an immersive acoustic device, a ring in which Agathe Thévenot, in constant conjunction with the sounds powered and mixed by Olvo (Nicolas Allard), embodies the tormented outpouring, the fleeting euphoria, the sudden seriousness, all the fracas, all the failings, all the furies, all the bolting for freedom. But also, the power of a search for self-knowledge, liberated from diktats.