Blue Eyes, Black Hair is a danced adaptation of the eponymous novel by Marguerite Duras.
The theme of the play asks the question of love between two people who do not have the same sexual preference. How to accept then that the other does not come closer to his own desires? The real message is a deep love, the pleasure associated with it, the pain too. In the center of the story, a “funeral place”, a theatre scene, a room where love is impossible. Lying, motionless and naked, a man and a woman, blue eyes black hair like “the young stranger” whom they both love, whom they lost and weep for losing. At the same time the woman weeps over her desire for the man and the man to be prevented from desiring her. Or rather it is said that they weep, themselves do nothing, exposed, sacred, designated to worship. Everything revolves around a terrible and unspeakable moment, when everything has been unveiled and stolen in a flash. This fatal moment, the characters reenumerate the illumination and the mystery, the sudden vision of a man with blue eyes and black hair.
Jérôme Delbey was born in 1975 in Croix (France). He began his dance training in his hometown at the “Ecole nationale de danse“ in Tourcoing. He also studied 3 years at the “Ecole supérieure d´arts appliqués et du textile“ in Roubaix and, in 1993, graduated with a degree in applied arts. He then joined the “Jeune ballet international“ in the “Ecole supérieure de danse Rosella Hightower“ in Cannes (France). After 11 years in Germany with the Badisches Staatstheater Karlsruhe and the Theater Regensburg, Jérôme was engaged in 2006 by The GöteborgsOperans Danskompani (Sweden).
In addition to creating several works for workshops and freelance projects he choreographed “Mauvais Anges“ for the Göteborg Ballet in 2007 – which was awarded with the “Scapino Production Price “ at the 22nd International Choreography Competition in Hannover (Germany) in 2008 and the 3rd Price at the Cross Connection International Choreography Competition in Copenhagen (Denmark) in 2009 -,“Skin” for the Scapino Ballet Rotterdam in 2009, “Soldat” in 2010 with the dancer Erik Johansson, “I shall die in Florence” for The GöteborgsOperans Danskompani, “Hel Haldi Sínu” for Iceland Dance Company in 2012 and more recently “Blue… Almost transparent” for NuDans 2015 with students from Balett Akademi Stockholm and Göteborg.
Jérôme Delbey is as well set, costume, graphic and light designer. He has created all the designs of his own dance pieces but also for choreographers such as Thomas Zamolo, Moritz Ostruschnjak, Hokuto Kodama, Heather Telford or Dan Langeborg, Fernando Melo.
He´s been recently working with choreographer Fernando Melo on the creation of the costumes for his new creation “Pepper´s Ghost” for Norrdans (Sweden) as well as for “Re:Play” and “Dream Play” for the Aspen Santa Fe Ballet (USA).
