The King and the Bird

19 quai Paul Doumer, Théâtre des Salins, Ferrières

Nourished by the texts of Prévert and the music of Wojciech Kilar, this adaptation takes the form of a sensitive and engaged choreographic fable, accessible to all audiences. A former solo dancer with the Ballet Preljocaj, Émilie Lalande develops a choreographic language based on the musicality of gesture — “seeing the music and listening to the dance,” according to Balanchine — and on the richness of interpretations offered to the spectator. She tells the story of this tyrannical king, obsessed with his power and enamored with the portrait of a shepherdess. In this show where poetry and imag…