We can think at first that Diffraction is a piece for six. That because it results from six soli composed by Cindy Van Acker during these last two years and also because we see the names of the six dancers : four women and two men. But Diffraction is in fact a piece for six + one. And this added partner, impossible to ignore, omnipresent, sometimes humanised under the aspect of a great inquisitive eye that comes to take a close look at the audience, is light. There is a tremendous, meticulous, almost unreasonable work to choreograph a neon tubes machine. The two soli, Obtus and Nixe, had brought the choreographer at the threshold of an organical fusion between a dancer and an environment of fluorescent tubes. This treshold is taken to a new level without any voluntary action but with grace, so that at a certain time, we don’t know if it is the dancers who arrange an illuminated geometry or if it is the neon themselves, sliding from shape to shape, that impulse the movement. Diffraction, with its powerful light score, is to be lived as a tribute paid to the progressive chaos. Without ever leaving an extremely simple choreographically structure. — MP