freestyle is a heart to beat
Out of a simple boombox a soundscape narates the rhythm of my steps through my hometown. We can hear bits of music that uses to play through my headphones as it ponctuactes my walk. I join to this sound piece an improvised dance in order to emulate the vibrations of an urban space’s portrait. Surrounded…
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gimme a break !!!
that’s twisted
GIMME A BREAK !!! is a quest for catharsis. Drawing on the vocabulary of rave music, meditation and headbanging, Baptiste Cazaux continues his exploration of letting go, which he sees as a survival strategy in the face of capitalism. In a duet with loudspeakers, the choreographer creates a disrupted space-time, full of complexities and contradictions,…
Read Morecursed and crossed
In Cursed and Crossed, five performers wander around the stage, each with a unique solitude. In turn, their dances outline forms from which monstrous figures emerge – fragile, unsettling, disarming. For her first project, Charly Ange Fogaroli has drawn on horror, not as a genre that provokes fear, but as a space where marginal memories…
Read Morestone
With STONE, her first project, Garance Maillot revisits, on stage, a personal turning point – the death of her grandfather – which prompted a question: ‘What are we to do with our legacies?’ Garance narrates, sings and dances, sometimes all at once. She summons lesbian and queer figures from the history of dance who appear…
Read Moreendless summer camp
In Endless Summer Camp, Sophie Guisset extends her research into spaces of freedom and unexpected alliances. Drawing on her personal experience within scouting, she adopts its framework and structure but only in order to subvert its codes. Welcome to a utopian summer camp for adults only, where performers create a temporary troupe and together explore…
Read Morejoyaux lourdement sous-estimés
Two men love each other, tear each other apart, find each other again, hate each other and are reconciled. Together, they go through different kinds of relationships – from open relationships to chemsex, a platonic bond to polyamory – in an ongoing quest for tenderness, understanding and connection. On stage, their bodies intertwine, challenge one…
Read Morethe selkie poetry reading
The Selkie Poetry Reading is a combination of the poems and songs from the legendary duo, Beauty and the Beast (not the Disney version!), in a stripped-down, intimate setting. The Selkie Poetry Reading plays with the contrasts between rawness and fragility, lust and disgust, body and seal (soul). Cutting the crap away and returning to…
Read Morecinema impero
“Cinema Impero” is named after a cinema built in the centre of Asmara in 1937 during the fascist regime. As a language, cinema has always had the power to create imaginaries and, at the same time, to shape and construct narratives, especially when used as propaganda by authoritarian regimes. The new languages of present-day artificial…
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