Steps into space, Samuel Matthew's “War: The War of Calligraphy and Color” started and ended, amid deep silence in the Abu Dhabi Cultural Complex Theater for one hour, despite the audience's applause for the performers at the end, in recognition of the performance. Many questions remained in the minds of most of the audience about the interpretations and meanings of the show.
The show, the first in the Gulf region, presented a unique blend of dance, acrobatic movements and sports, a famed mixture of Matthew's works, especially inspired by the skills of artist Yves Klein, a black belt judo player who was influenced His art in sports, as he wrote about ballet, to present with the dancers accompanying him expressive movements in which the body acquires the ability to travel away from the ground such as astronauts, to be freed from all its surroundings, using ropes hanging in the ceiling of the stage, to step in space gracefully at first During the presentation, they evolve to reflect behavioral patterns Humanity varies between conflict, resistance and emancipation. The war here is between rival bodies, as well as between different points of view and multiple directions, as well as between the line and the color, which Klein described as "jealous of the line of color." It is written on it, evolution contributes to everything being subject to order, and that the desire for peace becomes real and not merely constructive phrases devoid of credibility.
These meanings, translated by Samuel Matthew into dazzling dances and expressive movements performed by the team, and relied on the creation of something similar dialogues between the mass of the bodies of the performers and the space surrounding them, where Samuel Matthew hired circus artist specializing in aerobatic games, Jonas Leclerc, and dancer Fabien Dune, and others Among the artists, the show also employed many artistic elements that contributed to its enrichment, especially the accompanying music, which acquired a dramatic character that was able to convey this charged atmosphere to the public, and put him on alert at some time and anticipation and caution at another, and lighting played a prominent role in the show , Where they were used to play with the shadows, as well as turning the background of the theater into something that sometimes looked like a screen, to take the scene to the ground.
The show presented a unique combination of dance, acrobatic movements and sport.