Olivier Dubois (à propos d'ELEGIE)

Olivier Dubois has gone on to invent forms with extremely meticulous scores whose almost mechanical precision allows a state of abandonment
to be attained.

“Élégie”, his creation for the Ballet National de Marseille is to be seen as a melancholic crossing.
“A lament, themournful singing of the Angel… a melancholic creature, ‘that being who attests to the recognition of a higher level of reality in the invisible’. It is the experience of creation… I – damaged! Tame this dark magma. Nothing. Gaping openness, or savage survival, I am the victim of my own knife, I open the wound and watch my world become flooded. I am the Angel generated, poured out then turned over, swallowed by this night which spreads its darkness over everything. I see it, there, like an attempt at dialogue in the afterlife, a reprieve… like the giddiness of a crazy horizon, the lunatic, the artist confronted with the axis of his mortality, of his human finiteness.”

OLIVIER DUBOIS