Je prends feu trop souvent — Matoo

Half animal and half human, the Faun of Mallarmé’s poem (1876), of Debussy’s symphonic composition (1894), and of Nijinski’s choreographic work (1912), exists outside any historical context, holding a mirror up to those present-day beings caught up in the transient and intense condition of adolescence. With breaking voices, instability, dreams and impulses...To give form to this essential turbulence – under the original title of Faun/ve, later changed to Je prends feu trop souvent –, the Nyash c...