Geneva Camerata, David Greilsammer and Juan Kruz Diaz de Garaio Esnaola rethink the meeting point between dance, visual art and music in their striking production “La Danse du Soleil”. 
With this production, dancer, choreographer and director Juan Kruz Diaz de Garaio Esnaola transforms the musicians into true actors and dancers. Poignant, hypnotic and striking, this choreographic concert offers a mystical journey between life and death, exploring deeply human themes such as memory, loss, hope and surrender.
The thirty musicians perform and dance entirely from memory to two major orchestral masterpieces: Le Bourgeois Gentilhomme by Lully and Mozart’s Symphony No. 40. In this staging, the musicians of the Geneva Camerata (GECA) struggle, lie down, and play from the back of their chairs placed on the floor, doing so with astonishing naturalness. They reinvent the role of the orchestra by becoming protagonists in a sensory, artistic, musical and visual performance. La Danse du Soleil (Dance of the Sun) is an invitation to share and reflect — a deeply moving journey that begins in the light with Lully and ends in the emotion and passion of Mozart. Both tragic and joyful, light-hearted and profound, this musical and choreographic performance is a tribute to loss and mourning, to joy and beauty.
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