» Editorial, by Jean-Charles Gil (English)

To you,

At this time when our friends from the other side of the Mediterranean Sea are picking up their freedom of expression, a new energy is reaching us and pondering  our own convictions.

Wondering seems natural facing the future : a future to be thinking by coming across the basics of our culture and common mediterranean resources again.

Deliberately I´ve choosen in 2003 to create the Ballet d´Europe in the Mediterranean Basin. Pursuing my artistic and cultural way, naturally I´ve been sharing my projects on these territories : Lebanon, Syria, Tunisia, Malta, Morocco, Spain, Italy...

Everything started with my vision of the essential provencal work from Mistral, Mireille. I decided to focus it on a dramaturgy that calls up the antique greek tragedy, in which everyone can find its roots. Based on this work, in 2004, this path of opening and exchanges across the Mediterranean Sea had risen.

Nowadays, more convinced than ever, I develop an artistic work I started two years ago with our friends from Tangier to end up a creation, H2O - Mémoire de l´Eau. To ally formal differences between two dances, to exceed our particularities, to release movement, in order to reach fusion : this fusion in energy that creates Life, Life which is held just by the existence of Water.

I want to make just a moment to enjoy movement, a blow of gesture, in order to touch the fragility of Human. So, we will see the emergence of moments of our History, through a fresco, a mosaic of rediscovered characters. They will bring back our Mediterranean Memory.

These moments shall be shared to make our roots reappear.

Jean-Charles GIL
Choreograph
Director of the Ballet d´Europe