D.D. BLUE GOLD DIGGER

LES SAISONS DE LA DANSE - novembre 1982

To construct his story, dancer-choreographer Dominique Petit chose the theme of America: urban, noisy and sprawling, but also the land of wide-open spaces, the symbol of liberty and adventure. With pianist-actor Denis Levaillant, he relates the nocturnal confessions of two dreamy hoodlums. The gold-diggers' blues'. Both of them invent cock-and-bull stories and answer each other, one with gesture, the other with music, which he blends with surprising sound effects. In a shimmering blue suit and silver shoes, Dominique Petit plays the pick-up artist, the gangster, the rock'n'roller, the music-hall artiste who tap dances to strange music that mixes birdcalls with the whistling of a train and the noise of a pinball machine.

This modern, expressed through the American mythology, is also an excellent choreographic pretext. The dancer practises all forms of walking and discovers all the combinations of movement by putting together the most unexpected steps. He experiments with effects of speed and stopping. He combines karate positions with pliés and ronds de jambe from classical dance and gymnast's acrobatics. This is a sinewy, energetic creation, original in its behaviour and appealing because it makes the dancer and musician participate in an amazing duo

Véronique Sédro

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