Choreographed by Paul Ibey
Performed by Paul Ibey and Anton Pasquarella
Costumes and setting by Zag Dorison
Music by CMI
From embryo to fish
fish to man
Unfolding on the shores for a million years.
The sea, like the mother’s womb,the sea calls us
The coelacanth is considered
to be a living fossil, thought to have been extinct since the end of
the cretaceous period over 65 million years ago. Fossils of the fish
have been found that date back over 410 million years. But in 1938,
a local fisherman caught a live coelacanth off the coast of South Africa.
Since then, live coelacanths have been sighted and photographed in the
wild. This fish was believed to be able to leave the sea and live on
land--the first step in the evolution of fishes into land-dwelling amphibians
This performance is dedicated to the memory of Jacqueline Robinson
and L'Atelier de la Danse in Paris
