Compagnie Philippe Saire
From its foundation in 1986, the Philippe Saire Company has created some thirty shows, with more than 1,800 performances in 200 cities across Europe, Africa, Asia, the Middle East and America.
Cie Philippe Saire is in permanent residency at Théâtre Sévelin 36, Lausanne.
On the choreographic side, Vacarme, Étude sur la Légèreté, Vie et Mœurs du Caméléon Nocturne, La Haine de la Musique, Les Affluents, [ob]seen, Could I just draw your attention to the brevity of life?, Cartographies and Black Out are some of the productions that have enabled Cie Philippe Saire to build and strengthen an international reputation.
The Company also has regularly performed at art galleries, in gardens, urban spaces and other outdoor venues. From 2002 to 2012, the Cartographies project, which combines performances and video production.
More recently, this taste for experimentation has led to the creation of a an ongoing series called Dispositifs with choreographies on the verge of visual arts: in Black Out (creation 2011, over 200 representations), the movements of the dancers draw shapes in some black substance on stage while the audience watch from above; NEONS (2014) stages a couple dancing in a world of lights and shadows; Vacuum (2015) had two dancers floating between horizontally placed neon tubes; in Ether (2018) a duo evolves among volutes of smoke; Salle des Fêtes (Party Room) (2021) plays with helium balloons in a circular space. Vacuum also has it's all audiences version, Hocus Pocus (2017), which happily passed the 300 performances.
From the clouds to the depths of the ocean, the adventures of two illusionist dancers. A poetic coming-of-age story imagined by choreographer Philippe Saire, a pioneer of Swiss contemporary dance.