“Come Kiss Me Now takes us through 17^th-cen­tury Eng­lish music lit­er­at­ure, Robert Burton’s treaty The Ana­tomy of Mel­an­choly, and New Romantics cov­ers. Five study por­traits explore, dis­sect and meander through mel­an­chol­ic affects and reveal a mul­ti­pli­city of vari­ations around that humor. The piece com­bines recit­al, dance theatre, singing, ancient music and digit­ally-assisted music com­pos­i­tion, 17^th-cen­tury tunes and New Wave songs, where violas de gamba con­sort with beat­boxes, opera singing, spoken word. Everything blends togeth­er, bleeds through, and pours into infin­ite and cir­cu­lar time.

Our endeavor is to pro­pose a col­lab­or­at­ive piece between dance, music, lit­er­at­ure, light­ing and cos­tumes with all the per­formers and cre­at­ors. It is a vis­cer­ally express­ive piece, whose dra­mat­ic struc­ture com­bines breath, song, text and a body moved by Melancholy.

A cho­reo­graph­ic poem with mul­tiple entries, Come Kiss Me Now pro­poses a reflec­tion on our rela­tion to death, to the fra­gil­ity and pre­cari­ous­ness of life but also our capa­city for con­tinu­ously explor­ing our trans­form­a­tions even when they are invis­ible to us.”

Alban Richard, May 2023