CREATIVES AND CREDITS

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Choreographer: Mathieu Geffre 

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Music: Enoch Light, Duke Ellington, The Kilimandjaro Dark Jazz Ensemble, Nils Frahm and Bachar Mar-Khalifé

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Costume & Set Design: Mathieu Geffre

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Premiered on 27 November 2018 at The Sage, Gateshead

 

Funded and Supported by Arts Council England and Northumberland Arts Development

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Commissioned by Eliot Smith Dance

“There are only two things: love, all sorts of love, with pretty girls, and the music of New Orleans or Duke Ellington. Everything else ought to go, because everything else is ugly" Boris Vian 

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Froth on the daydream is the first choreographic adaptation of the novel L’Ecume des Jours by Boris Vian. It is set in 1960’s surrealistic Paris, the viewers follow four characters Colin, Chloe, Chick and Alise confronting the tragic turns of life.