She spins, she pirouettes, right, left, forwards and backwards, in a gray jacket, then a white one, in trousers, in underwear, and sometimes without. Anne Teresa De Keersmaeker twirls constantly throughout the show BREL, co-created and performed with Solal Mariotte who, as an experienced breakdancer, spins just as much. The songs of Jacques Brel (1929-1978) are dizzying. The choreographer's style plays like a spinning top, but the sense of vertigo does not always match the waltz's rhythm.

A circle of white light and a microphone: The 300 square meters of the Carrière de Boulbon's stage narrow around this momentarily empty circle, marking the space of the late singer. His face and silhouette soon appear on the impressive rocky wall that towers 41 meters above the stage. At 10 pm on Monday, July 7, 1,200 spectators awaited BREL in the stands. This is the eighth time De Keersmaeker is being featured in Avignon, where she has repeatedly been invited ever since her debut in 1983.

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