The name of the piece, Tres Scripturae, means “three writings” and makes reference to the three lines of writing at work in the piece: the choreographic writing, the musical writing and the stage writing (set and lighting).

In Tres Scripturae, a creation for three dancers, a musician and a technician, choreographer Etienne Guilloteau brings these distinct scripts into dialogue with one another. They start with simple elements and then divide, multiply and deconstruct them in a movement tending towards the baroque. This is done in order to discover and reveal part of what they are hiding which is not yet, or not always, visible. Guilloteau assigns the performance area to both lighting designer Hans Meijer, who openly manipulates the light and space, and pianist Alain Franco, who performs scores from the twentieth-century repertoire. By thus revealing the elements upholding the performance, Tres Scripturae triggers the audience’s active involvement. With Tres Scripturae, Etienne Guilloteau has created an open space between illusion and deconstruction, intelligence and abstraction – a space in which spectators can give free rein to their sensibility and imagination.