This year, in celebration of International Dance Day, promoted by the UNESCO International Dance Council 2022, French freediver, dancer and director Julie Gautier presents a completely submerged choreography performed at a depth of 5 meters at Y-40 ® The Deep Joy is performed. the deepest thermal water pool in the world. It is the underwater ballet Narcisa that takes its name from a beautiful flower with a powerful and diverse meaning, in fact it contains self-esteem, strength, security and representation of vanity and inability to love. The video, from the French artist – who rose to worldwide fame by directing underwater videos like Beyoncé’s Runnin’ and interpreting the AMA masterpiece that racked up millions of views around the world – begins with a line by Truman Capote about Narciso, from the Novel “Other Voices, Other Spaces”. Produced and co-produced in Italy at Y-40® The Deep Joy, the video awakens from a project led by Florian Fischer of international visual crew Behind The Mask. It is the perfect fusion of hypnotic underwater movements, an upside down apnea dance, jumping up at the edge of the tunnel that crosses the pool and more intense moments where the choreographer is reflected in a glass covered with air and a der French director originally from Reunion Island struggles with his own reflection and the bubbles that form there. Julie Gautier, daughter of a dance teacher who passed on her passion from an early age, and a spearfisherman, has in her curriculum collaborations with artists of the caliber of Gregory Colbert, for whom she participated as a model and dancer in the multimedia project “Ashes & Snow”. the continuation of which she is currently working, by Sylvie Guillem, Étoile of the Paris Opera, selected by Rudolf Nureyev, Ophelie Longuet, Étoile of the Nice Opera and choreographer of the passionate dance Ama, interpreted by Gautier based on the music of Ezio Bosso in Y-40® and devotes herself to all women as her supreme work.
