Je Nen Connais Pas La Fi
Lexi Z.
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Jeff Buckley’s voice has been a quiet thread through my life, from long childhood car rides with my dad to this past summer in Ballet BC’s studios, where I learned Marko Goecke’s Woke Up Blind, also set to Buckley. For my piece, Je n’en Connais Pas la Fin, instead of choreographing directly to the lyrics, I treated the score like a landscape, letting faint guitar repetitions, tonal shifts, and subtle counts guide me. I aimed to let movement emerge from the song’s atmosphere, using weight shifts, texture, and use of space, rather than its literal meaning. This piece carries a soft nostalgia that feels like watching my younger self fade gently in the distance, those long, unstructured summers, aimless bike rides, and days that stretched without responsibility. Through the choreography, I wanted to explore that bittersweet transition from simplicity into structure, and the quiet ache of growing up.
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Dance is an architecture of time. The only art form that exists entirely in present tense. If a painting captures what's seen, music captures what's heard, and writing captures what's said, dance captures what's felt. Yet, the instant dance is created, it’s gone. That’s what's so precious about this language.
