<p><strong>Choreography and artistic direction</strong>: Blanca Li <br /><strong>Original Music</strong>: Fran&ccedil;ois Eudes Chafrault  and Tao Gutierrez <br />Lights: Jacques Ch&acirc;telet <br />Video: Charles Carcopino <br />Costumes: Laurent Mercier, Mr Pearl and Fran&ccedil;oise Yapo.</p>
<p><strong>Coroduction</strong>: Biennale de  la danse de Lyon, Compagnie Blanca Li, Maison des Arts de Cr&eacute;teil, Op&eacute;ra  de Massy. With the help of la Caisse des D&eacute;p&ocirc;ts et Consignations et de  la Direction R&eacute;gionale des Affaires culturelles d&rsquo;Ile de France &ndash;  Minist&egrave;re de la Culture et de la Communication.</p>
<p>A collection of snapshots, glimpses of real life, a  collage of different emotions. Life&hellip; as a film. For this creation,   Blanca Li has chosen to work on several short pieces, composing a  patchwork of short stories, of short dance movies. The choreographer  draws her inspiration from moments, images, objects, stories, music,  fragments of actuality, from all those unpredictable encounters that  make her daily life. Some of these ideas take form into pieces with  evocative titles like, Doblepaso, Alarme, Round Midnight, Made in China,  Game Over&hellip; The length of these pieces as well as their form (solos,  duos, trios, group compositions) reflect the lightweight, the briefness  of these flashes of inspiration. Ephemeral moments treated with humour,  poetry or energy, they respond to the need of the choreographer to give  freedom to her wandering inspiration without being constrained by  duration.</p>
<p>In that way the choreography brings forth such  fondamental issues as: how to deal with highheel shoes, or more  metaphysical matters like that of artists having to earn a living by  performing in the NY subway. As to the sound effects, they prove that  Blanca Li has lost nothing of her unmistakable creativeness. For one of  her pieces, the choreographer picked out these small plastic instruments  we give children to play on at birthday parties. However bad the music  they make is, and not sophisticated in any way, Blanca Li just adores  the way they sound. But, Blanca insists, the whole point is to have  responsible adults play on them. No matter how wild the performance is,  with no link between the different themes developed in each piece, it  arouses a strong urge to go back to the child within. As if hypnotized,  the audience faces a wonderful playground where emotions loom up with no  apparent control.</p>
<p>The tittle  &ldquo;Alarme&rdquo; at first revealed some kind of a  panic, a feeling of emergency awakened by a troubled world, but has  slowly changed, its sharpness has softened and turned into something  smoother. &ldquo;I want to remember the beauty in all things&rdquo;, Blanca says.  More concretely she asked the artist friends of her team -a  photographer, a costume designer, a plastician- to come up with an  object, something meaningful to them, and bring it to her. And they will  all be on stage along with the eight performers.</p>
<p><strong>Alarm is composed of eight independent pieces:</strong></p>
<p><strong>Alarme</strong> <br />In our contemporary world, in spite of the increasing numbers of  means of communication, fear keeps human beings  isolated while  they  live under more and more control. A fancy on the freedom we long for in  order to prevent our planet from turning into a threatening and hostile  environment.</p>
<p><strong>Doble paso</strong> <br />Many modern women&rsquo;s professional life can be summed up by the same  motto: save appearances no matter what. A free variation on what we  become thanks to the way others see us&hellip;</p>
<p><strong>Electron</strong> <br />Night, under the city lights or in the dark, releases a kind of  energy, which renews and revitalizes the bodies. An hymn to the urban  night and the subterranean streams  and emotions.</p>
<p><strong>Pochette surprise</strong> <br />Because we should never forget we were once children and never lose our ability to play.</p>
<p><strong>Made in China</strong> <br />Technology doesn&rsquo;t have to be advanced or sophisticated to move and fascinate us.</p>
<p><strong>Promenade</strong> <br />An exploration of the world of seduction where lie the roots of our  most passionate memories. A confrontation between the call of nature and  the limits we impose on ourselves.</p>
<p><strong>Round midnight</strong> <br />While midnight is a long gone memory , and dawn still an  indecipherable future, a journey into the depths of the feminine soul,,  calling for the absolute, for vital instinct and sensual struggles.</p>
<p><strong>Game Over</strong> <br />The light effects, which come as an illustration of the music, break up the bodies and lead us into the heart of the machine.</p>