Revoir Lascaux

Gaëlle Bourges draws inspiration for
her stage work from her interest in art
and art history to produce works and performances about the world and bodies.
In Revoir Lascaux, she follows in the footsteps of the four teenagers who in September 1940 discovered the Lascaux cave and its legendary beasts, horses, stags, aurochs and felines dancing on the walls they had been painted and engraved on 18,000 years earlier.
In a theatre of shadows and masks and in the heart of a cave made out of cardboard boxes and fabric, the choreographer puts the explorers (and audience) into a stage machine to go back in time. Singing and dancing with the Lascaux artists, they blend the spirit and life force of the animals painted on the walls. Following an imaginary path, Revoir Lascaux leads us to the emotions found in this very distant (yet still strangely close) world of our ancestors who wore masks to take on animal spirits.