Dedicated Email - Tuesday - 06/06/2025 - Guggenheim Museum -DoNYC - Dance Reflections - 5/15

Dance Reflections by Van Cleef Arpels presents étrangler le temps (To Strangle Time), a duet by Boris Charmatz and Emmanuelle Huynh, performed in the Guggenheim New York’s Frank Lloyd Wright–designed rotunda.

Created in 2009, étrangler le temps draws inspiration from boléro 2, a duet choreographed by Odile Duboc and danced by Charmatz and Huynh. In this later work, the dancers draw freely from memory to craft a slowed-down choreography set to a time-stretched version of composer Maurice Ravel’s orchestral work Boléro. The performance reflects the words of Japanese Butoh choreographer Tatsumi Hijikata: ‟I wanted to strangle time.” Writer Gilles Amalvi describes the resulting sensation as a ‟plunge into weightlessness, verging on the sculptural.”

_{Image Credit: étrangler le temps as part of A Dancer’s Day, Tempelhof, Volksbühne, Berlin, 2017. Photo: Ursula Kaufmann © Ursula Kaufmann}