Full movement images of quiet undertones. Disturbingly beautiful. At times grotesque, at times poetic, at times bizarre. In “Vie et Moeurs…” Philippe Saire has hit on the mean and cynical elements of Shakespeare’s Midsummer Night’s Dream. And how ! Through his acrobatic sporty and coded language of movement he has always found images that speak a lot for themselves and which move along the edges of verbal and non-verbal communication. In earlier works there has been at least one such image. The new production is full of them. A masterwork.
Eva Bucher, Tages Anzeiger, 11.4.1992 (Theater Westend, Zürich)

Sisyphos dreams in the summernight. Philippe Saire is telling us of the ambivalence of human communication, the conflict between passion and boredom. He visually describes the myth of Sisyphos for Albert Camus and so suggests one has to accept ones destiny. The great dancers subtley convey this into movement… The huge audience in the vast city square enthusiastically celebrated all the way through.
Roland Langer, Frankfurter Rundschau, 2.8.1991 (Off-Tat Festival Mousonturm, Frankfurt).

The Swiss Company of Philippe saire is hardfy short on style… His choreography slides through a variety of contrasting moods and emotions. His stage events are wrapped around a story that allows the performers to transform themselves into interesting characters… The dancers skid from funny to serious and move from dashing athleticism to limpid tenderness with a deft versatility.
Allen Robertson, Time Out, 6-13.05.1992 (Turning World Festival, London)

The Philippe Saire Dance Company invited its audience on an enchanted trip into the world that exists only at the end of the party. That time when your body is exhausted, but something keeps you going, keeps you moving.
The tremendous precision that the Company achieved during the entire performance helped relate the dream-like state that Saire’s inspired choreography captured. In addition to the ethereal quality of movement, though, a great amount of athleticism was displayed. Each couple executed many non-traditional spinning shoulder lifts where the woman draped herself around her partner in unlikely positions.
Laura Atlantas, The Michigan Daily, 16.10.1992 (University of Michigan, Ann Arbor)